“Ding Dong! The Witch is dead!” Our View: Hopeful days for area fishermen

December 15, 2012 National

Defiant to the end, she thumbed her nose at the fishermen she put out of business with a departing comment that listed her so-called achievements, including “returning fishing to profitability.” The removal of an extreme environmentalist from this position — and one has to assume Lubchenco was removed, since just a few weeks ago it seemed she was gunning for another four years at NOAA — is a good sign for our long-suffering fishing industry. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121214/OPINION/212140308/-1/NEWS06

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borehead - Moderator says:

December 15, 2012 at 1:37 pm

I’ve called her a lot of things but Ding Dong ain’t one of ’em.

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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.

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