With the national media gathered on Martha’s Vineyard this week for President Barack Obama’s vacation, fishermen are seizing the opportunity to organize a floating protest at Vineyard Haven on Thursday.
A flotilla of commercial boats will rendezvous at the harbor entrance at noon to demonstrate that fishermen are less than happy with the Obama administration’s [...]
EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts – Aug 24, 2010 – The Northeast Seafood Coalition has taken out a full page ad in today’s Vineyard Gazette. The ad is an open letter to President Obama from Russell Sherman, captain of the Fishing Vessel Lade Jane of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
“MR. PRESIDENT, WE NEED YOUR HELP”
Dear President Obama,
My name is Russell [...]
By Michelle Malkin
I spotlighted the neon green radical-led White House ocean grab last week that is undermining the health of the fishing industry.
On Thursday, a fleet of fishermen will gather at Martha’s Vineyard to protest Obama’s destructive eco-policies.
It’s just one more wave of the citizen backlash by thousands of victims of [...]
TRUTH: Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement
Ocean Spirit Productions is proud to announce the Rhode Island premiere of their feature length documentary TRUTH: Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement. TRUTH has been chosen to close the Rhode Island International Film Festival TONIGHT!
Sunday August 15th
6:30 PM
Rhode Island Veterans Auditorium.
Starring Sig [...]
POINT JUDITH,R.I. Ocean Spirit Productions is proud to announce the Rhode Island premiere of their feature length documentary TRUTH: Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement. TRUTH has been chosen to close the Rhode Island International Film Festival on Sunday August 15th at 6:30 PM at the Rhode Island Veterans Auditorium.
Starring Sig Hansen from The Discovery Channel’s [...]
By Patrick Anderson
Gloucester Times
The gleaming cod delivered whole from Paul Mettivier’s Debra Ann II to shareholders in the Cape Ann Fresh Catch program were pulled from the ocean just hours earlier and only a few miles from the dock.
That would seem to epitomize the ideal of locally harvested, sustainable food.
But according to the expert authors [...]
American Thinker
By Mike Johnson
H/T RI Fishermen’s Alliance
The New England fishing industry is in serious trouble. Fishermen are leaving, giving up on their jobs. Fishing boats have become a glut on the market. The only aspect of the industry that is flourishing is the government bureaucracy. The free-market system no longer applies in the age of Obama.
When [...]
BOSTON – Friday, July 16, 2010 – Massachusettes Governor Deval Patrick today issued the following press release. Following recent meetings with the Massachusetts fishing industry up and down the coast, including a meeting this week with 40 Gloucester fishing industry representatives, Governor Deval Patrick today sent the attached letter to U.S. Department of Commerce [...]
By EMILY DUPUIS
The Westerly Sun
NARRAGANSETT – Rhode Island fishermen decried new fishing regulations, which they say are driving them to ruin, in a meeting with federal commercial fishing officials Monday.
“Just because nobody’s here, don’t assume everything’s peachy rosy and everyone’s happy,” said Joel Hovanesian, a Galilee fisherman. “It’s quite the opposite. People are pissed.”
The Wakefield [...]