“My skipper friend whose family had fished for generations said, simply, that oversight is necessary because the fishermen wouldn’t self-limit their take and were taking everything that they hauled.” — Reader Stephen Mello
Category: Community Voices / Fishing Crisis
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Opinion: It’s time to end the era of billion-dollar ‘sealords’ and heed the fishermen
Congress must listen to the voices that for nearly 30 years have consistently sounded the alarm about management schemes that privatize fishing rights, industrialize the ocean, and undermine our public commons.
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Public reaction to New Bedford fishing industry investigation: ‘This is a disgrace’
“What hurts them and their families, hurts me … I think putting the squeeze on the very people who do the backbreaking work is unconscionable. Corporate greed at its best.”
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Opinion: Manipulation of the fishing industry is alive and well
“Sennott’s piece brings into focus what we’ve long wondered aloud: How much of the $11 billion the industry generates each year stays here … Certainly not enough.” — Joshua Amaral
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Opinion: First, ground fishing takeover — next is the scallop industry
“We as fishermen pour our hearts out to the (scallop leasing) committee. And they sit there with a straight face like they have already made their decision.” — Fishing Captain Justin Mello