From the Office of Governor Janet T. Mills – A Letter to the Lobster Industry

September 1, 2021 Mid Atlantic, National, New England, South Atlantic

In Letter to Lobster Industry, Governor Mills Calls Right Whale Rule “Extremely Disappointing” & Pledges to Work with Maine’s Congressional Delegation to Fight It. – September 1, 2021. In the wake of yesterday’s National Marine Fisheries Service’s Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Rule, Governor Janet Mills last night sent a letter to Maine’s lobster industry expressing solidarity with them and calling the rule “extremely disappointing”. In the letter to Maine’s lobster harvesters, dealers, and processors, Governor Mills pledges to work with Maine’s Congressional Delegation to determine the best way to address the industry’s and administration’s concerns: >click to read< 14:24

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2 Responses to From the Office of Governor Janet T. Mills – A Letter to the Lobster Industry

Sam Parisi says:

September 1, 2021 at 9:02 pm

It is good to have a governor who cares for our fisherman ,Lobsterman need to make a living and do not intend to hurt the whales .A compromise is needed ,to help all parties .Thank You Sam

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- Joel H says:
  
  September 2, 2021 at 5:40 pm
  
  Compromise is not in the vocabulary of the radical conservangelist community. It’s either their way or the highway, period. They see only one side of the story and if getting what they want means destroying an entire industry and way of life then so be it.
  There is no compromising with these people.
  WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW….REBELLION BECOMES DUTY!
  
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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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