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.