Senate Field Hearing on Groundfish Management this Morning
This morning at 9 a.m. at the State House in Boston, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a field hearing on the first year of implementation of Amendment 16An...
View ArticleFocus going forward should be on making the New England Council and sector...
Monday’s Boston field hearing of the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation was good political theater. Senator Kerry and Senator Begich from Alaska, chair of the Committee, tried...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, October 28
Update: Our new look will actually launch this Wednesday, November 2. Sorry for the delay! We haven’t been posting as much as usual lately, but for a good reason! We’ve been hard at work planning a new...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Monday, December 12
An interesting story out of New Bedford says that “[s]harp differences have emerged among commercial fishermen over the wisdom of appealing the verdict in a federal lawsuit that went against the...
View Article2011: Favorites from our first year
When we started this blog in April, we didn’t know exactly where it might lead us. We knew that we wanted to tell a variety of fish stories, and we wanted to encourage an open dialogue with people in...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, March 9
Today, Senator Kerry’s office is introducing the Fisheries Investment and Regulatory Relief Act, which, according to the Boston Globe, “seeks to ensure that a portion of the money earned from duties on...
View ArticleCourts Can’t Fix What’s Broken With Groundfish
This post refers to an oral argument held in the First Circuit Court of Appeals on September 5, 2012. To listen to an audio recording of the argument, click here. On Wednesday, a panel of three...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, September 7
An oral argument was held Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to determine the legality of the implementation of Amendment 16An update to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, November 30
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit this week upheld the decision of the district court that the implementation of the catch shares system for the New England groundfishBottom-dwelling, or...
View ArticleCourt Upholds New England’s Landmark Fishing Law
This week, the federal First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston dashed the hopes of the cities of New Bedford and Gloucester to throw out the management structure that has been in place since May 2010...
View ArticleFocus going forward should be on making the New England Council and sector...
Monday’s Boston field hearing of the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation was good political theater. Senator Kerry and Senator Begich from Alaska, chair of the Committee, tried...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, October 28
Update: Our new look will actually launch this Wednesday, November 2. Sorry for the delay! We haven’t been posting as much as usual lately, but for a good reason! We’ve been hard at work planning a new...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Monday, December 12
An interesting story out of New Bedford says that “[s]harp differences have emerged among commercial fishermen over the wisdom of appealing the verdict in a federal lawsuit that went against the...
View Article2011: Favorites from our first year
When we started this blog in April, we didn’t know exactly where it might lead us. We knew that we wanted to tell a variety of fish stories, and we wanted to encourage an open dialogue with people in...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, March 9
Today, Senator Kerry’s office is introducing the Fisheries Investment and Regulatory Relief Act, which, according to the Boston Globe, “seeks to ensure that a portion of the money earned from duties on...
View ArticleCourts Can’t Fix What’s Broken With Groundfish
This post refers to an oral argument held in the First Circuit Court of Appeals on September 5, 2012. To listen to an audio recording of the argument, click here. On Wednesday, a panel of three...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, September 7
An oral argument was held Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to determine the legality of the implementation of Amendment 16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, November 30
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit this week upheld the decision of the district court that the implementation of the catch shares system for the New England groundfish fishery was not a...
View ArticleCourt Upholds New England’s Landmark Fishing Law
This week, the federal First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston dashed the hopes of the cities of New Bedford and Gloucester to throw out the management structure that has been in place since May 2010...
View ArticleA Victory for the Magnuson-Stevens Act (and Common Sense): Judge Rules in...
Last Friday, the Chief Judge of the New Hampshire Federal District Court, Joseph N. Laplante, ruled in Captain David Goethel and Sector 13’s lawsuit opposing industry-funded at-sea monitoring (ASM). A...
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