Tag Archives: Sam Parisi
Gloucester is at a crossroads – The end of our rope, Sam Parisi
Another slap in the face! NOAA is out to put our fishermen out of business. The endless regulations make it impossible for our small boats to survive. However, it seems that NOAA is not concerned. Fishermen see plenty of fish. NOAA does not. What else is new? Vito Giacalone is right. No one is listening and it seems that our government does not care. The reason, perhaps, is that our industry is a drop in the bucket compared to other industries. Many forget that the majority of homes in this city were paid for by waterfront dollars from waterfront jobs. Read the letter here 07:10
Sam Parisi – Fishermen need a farm bill
Over the past five years NOAA has imposed strict regulations on cod and other groundfish. Our fleet has gone from 200 vessels down to about 65. At the same time, if you can make sense out of this, NOAA has increased rental space by two thirds and has employed three times more workers. In the last two years, our small boats have been particularly hurt due to closures of inshore fishing grounds. Now rumor has it that NOAA,,, Read the rest here 07:41
Underutilized fish can be overfished too – Sam Parisi, Gloucester
I keep hearing of the need to find markets to develop underutilized species, and it could help. The problem I have is every time we do this, all of a sudden these species are overfished. I blame NOAA for this because instead of putting a quota on these species they let the fishermen catch all they want. This is what happened to dogfish — there there was no quota and in no time, they were over fished. Read the rest here 14:25
NOAA and Mr.Bullard have too much power over our industry – Sam Parisi, Gloucester
As a former fisherman from Gloucester, Massachusetts, I have never seen our industry in such bad shape as it is today. I feel NOAA and Mr.Bullard have too much power over our industry, and since Mr. Bullard has taken over we are not better off, in fact we are worse off. In spite of all the regulations imposed by NOAA, our groundfish stocks have not recovered, that is if you believe NOAA data, which is widely disputed. Read the rest here 10:23Where’s the accountability from NOAA?, Sam Parisi, Gloucester, Mass
When I was growing up, my dad — a fishermen — told me that, no matter what I do in life, I have to be accountable. What I cannot understand is how, after our fishermen have done everything to comply with NOAA restrictions over the last 20 years, NOAA scientists can say that our groundfish stocks are depleted, cod biomass at 3 percent. If the head of NOAA was the CEO of Wendy’s, he or she would be replaced. So why is it, year after year, those at NOAA still get paid every week, every year, regardless if they or their policies succeed? Read the rest here 08:20
Letter: Can a fish bill, like Farm Bill, aid fishermen? – Sam Parisi, Gloucester
In my lifetime, I never thought I would see things this bad. The fishing industry is at an all-time low, and as long as NOAA calls the shots we are doomed. When the 200-mile limit came into effect, it enabled us to be rid of the foreign trawlers who raped our sea. Now, that has somehow left our fishermen to be wrongly blamed for depleting our fisheries. Something needs to be done now before there is no fishing industry left. Read the rest here 08:24
Letter: Welcome fishing aid no long-term answer – Sam Parisi, Gloucester
Thanks to Congressman John Tierney, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, state Sen. Bruce Tarr, Mayor Carolyn Kirk and others, we finally sent a strong message to Congress conveying that our fishermen need help. Now, let’s just see to it that these funds go to those who need it most — our fishermen. Read more@GDT 01:41
