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Posing as a Commercial Fisherman, Agent used lobster to butter up fentanyl dealer

November 28, 2019 New England

Prosecutors said a Stoughton man sold fentanyl on several occasions to an undercover DEA agent who was posing as a commercial fisherman, offering lobsters to the alleged drug dealer in a sign of goodwill. Matthew Pizarro, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston Nov. 26,,, According to an affidavit filed by a VA investigator, the investigation involved an undercover DEA agent posing as a commercial fisherman who wanted to buy drugs. During on exchange on July 30, 2018, according to the affidavit, the undercover agent gave Pizarro a cooler of lobsters as a gift. Thank you! >click to read< 10:32

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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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