Fishermen Say Regulations Destroying Industry
- Posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B on May 11, 2011 at Patriot Action Network
SEABROOK, N.H. -- Fishermen on New Hampshire's Seacoast are warning that new fishing regulations could destroy their industry and have already caused them severe emotional stress.The U.S. Department of Commerce has sent a team to Seabrook to look at the effects of the new regulations."If they don't do something to modify the fishing regulations, we won't have a fishing industry on the Seacoast, is what it boils down to," said Hampton Town Manager Fred Welch.Many in the fishing industry said they want the federal team to do more than its stated task of creating an economic development assessment report. The team is spending three days in Seabrook and visiting five other New England fishing towns.
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