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Bipartisan Congressional Push for Summer Flounder Assessment

October 3, 2016 Mid Atlantic

In a bipartisan letter submitted to Assistant Administrator for Fisheries Eileen Sobeck on Thursday, members of the stressed the importance of scheduling a benchmark assessment for summer flounder in 2017. Citing the socioeconomic value of the commercial and recreational summer flounder fishery and the looming quota reductions proposed for 2017 and 2018 due in part to a lack of data, Rep. Tom MacArthur and 4 other representatives indicate that any delay in the assessment of summer flounder “would be a major mistake and threaten the health of the summer flounder population as well as the economy of the communities the fishery supports.” Read the story here 11:56

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Menendez, Pallone hope to ban Atlantic offshore drilling

April 20, 2015 Mid Atlantic

Offshore drilling would be banned in the Atlantic Ocean under legislation Sen. Robert Menendez and Rep. Frank Pallone say they will introduce in both chambers this week. The New Jersey Democrats announced the legislation on Monday, the five-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Pallone said the Deepwater Horizon spill is a reminder of the lasting environmental and economic damage that oil spills can cause. Read the rest here 18:26

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Jersey Shore reps will head up new Congressional Coastal Communities Caucus in Congress

February 27, 2015 Mid Atlantic

New Jersey Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. and Frank LoBiondo joined with colleagues on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to launch the , a bipartisan group designed to highlight the unique concerns of those that live, work, and do business along America’s coasts, according to LoBiondo’s office. The lawmakers, who both represent parts of the Jersey Shore, will serve as co-chairmen of the caucus. Read the rest here 19:57

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PALLONE: Block offshore drilling plan for Atlantic

February 10, 2015 Offshore Wind/Industrialization

Today our coast faces a number of environmental threats, but the good news is that there is still time to stop proposals for man-made environmental disasters. We have done it before, and we can do it again. Five years ago, the Obama administration released a plan that proposed drilling off the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Florida. Read the rest here 11:30

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Pallone, Gov. Christie requests federal disaster declaration for New Jersey fishing industry

November 15, 2012 Mid Atlantic

http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2012/11/gov_christie_requests_federal_1.html

http://www.ahherald.com/newsbrief-mainmenu-2/monmouth-county-news/14137-pallone-urges-the-department-of-commerce-to-declare-a-federal-fishery-resource-disaster-in-new-jersey

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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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