NE Fishery Management Council executive director says Oceana ignores efforts of Rhode Island fishermen in bycatch report
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Providence Journal] By Tom Nies - July 22, 2014 -
(Tom Nies is the executive director of the New England Fishery Management Council.)
The New England Fishery Management Council takes a different position from the one expressed in the July 1 editorial (“Frightening waste of fish”), as well as those reported in recent publications about wasteful fisheries bycatch and the related costs to fishermen and society.
The authors of those reports, staff from the international environmental advocacy organization Oceana, addressed important topics that all fisheries managers face. But there are numerous errors and inaccuracies in the Oceana report — so many that the eight regional fishery management councils, established by federal statute in 1976, collectively put together remarks that discuss the shortcomings of Oceana’s publication.
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