Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Seeking Aid for Our Fishermen
Today I sent a letter to Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives John Boehner urging him to support any measure that would
provide the fishing industry with monetary assistance. Currently, the House is debating a disaster appropriations
act, however, the House Committee on Rules struck down several amendments that
would have provided the fishing industry with as much as $150 million of aid.
With a decrease in allowable catches of certain groundfish
looming, the situation in Gloucester and fishing ports up and down the
Northeast Coast is dire, and while some of our elected officials are working hard,
without the cooperation of all our federal elected leaders, the fishing
industry will cease to exist as we know it, putting the livelihoods of our
fishermen, their families and shoreside business owners in jeopardy.
Posted below is the letter to Speaker Boehner and a press
release I sent to the local media.
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Fishing Industry