10/19/11, "Mayor of Oldest Shipping Port in America Begs Obama to Quit Killing Jobs (Video)," Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft
"Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk is a democrat.
The top official in Gloucester, Massachusetts went to Obama’s inauguration with her 2 children and voted for Obama but is now losing hope in his radical government. In this video she pleads with the far left president to quit killing jobs in the fishing industry.
Mayor Kirk wrote Obama a letter but never heard back from him.From the video: Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk, Democrat Gloucester, Massachusetts, Pleads for President Obama to Stop New Regulations Driving Small Businesses Out of Business. This Mayor “of the oldest fishing port in America” voted for Obama, went to his inauguration, and says she is now, “Losing Faith in Our Government.” Kirk pleads for the President to get personally involved and stop the Commerce Department’s overzealous enforcement of fishing regulations (something the Commerce Department Inspector General just slammed NOAA for) and the costly and burdensome regulations brought on by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
- new “Catch Shares” commercial fishing scheme.
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9/22/11, "Death of an Industry: The President's Impoverishment of America's Fishermen," American Thinker, Mike Johnson
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Computer models used by government, in the following case Canada's, to predict fish populations have proven grossly inaccurate:
Canada Fisheries and Oceans experts' catastrophic mismanagement sees 34 million fish come in from the sea to Canada's Fraser River. Commercial fishermen had been sent to dry dock, so there aren't enough fishermen to catch the fish.
- 9/3/10, "Canada Sees Shock Salmon Glut," Nature News, Macmillan Publishing, K. Larkin
- is taking fisheries scientists by surprise — and causing frustration across the fishing industry,
- which is largely unable to access the windfall."...
8/24/10, "Fishermen aim Vineyard Haven Protest at Obama" Boston Herald, by Richard Gaines of Gloucester Daily Times
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2/17/11, "Unfortunately, since you (CBS) put this piece in the can, the Secretary of Commerce has reneged on his pledge to review previous fines and
- has severely limited the Special Master's scope of remedies."...
- 2/17/11, "CBS News takes NOAA Fisheries Management to the woodshed," AT, Mike Johnson
12/18/08, "Lubchenco will helm National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration," Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin
- 6/28/10, "Getting help from the press," Gloucester Times, Nancy Gaines, Lubchenco founded a group to train global warming scientists to use media to shape government policy.
- (Following recent investigation of NOAA, the US Inspector General was met by a lack of cooperation from NOAA counsel Lois Schiffer, a Lubchenco hire).
- "Congressional reaction to the (US Inspector General's) IG's report has been angry and varied.
- sell off the cars and boats and other unauthorized purchases and fund fishermen who were unjustly or excessively fined and whose fishing seasons have been shortened."
Frank and Tierney, who represents Gloucester and much of the North Shore,
- last week sought the firing or resignation of Lubchenco, who was appointed to head NOAA by President Obama and who, in turn, named Schiffer to be chief counsel. " (Frank and Tierney have since called off their request at the urging of President Obama, following).
Frank late last week said
- the White House had promised him the changes he sought could be achieved
- without costing Lubchenco her job.
But North Carolina's Jones raised further questions Tuesday.
- "If (Lubchenco's) not going to step down, the administration needs to explain why, and somebody needs to answer not only to fishermen but to the taxpayers," said Jones, who represents the fleet along the Outer Banks. "There is something amiss here and it needs to be thoroughly vetted."
Jones and most East Coast federal lawmakers of both parties have announced agreement with Ouellette's position that past miscarriages of justice must be rectified....
- Ouellette wrote to Schiffer his "complete disagreement with your position that the abusive NOAA enforcement cases of the past
- should remain intact .."....
7/1, Gloucester Times: "NOAA Chief Counsel Lois Schiffer and Eric Schwaab, who heads NOAA Fisheries for chief administrator Jane Lubchenco, announced after the IG's preliminary report of police abuses that
- there would be no looking back or effort to rectify past miscarriages of justice.
NOAA has also fought against Freedom of Information Act requests by the Times seeking official clarification of whether Jones (who shredded documents) remains on the federal payroll.
- Lubchenco did not respond to an invitation to comment Thursday, but NOAA released a statement saying the agency "expected this review, appreciates the level of detail it provides and is evaluating the data and results carefully."...
7/1/2010, "Audit cites wide fund abuse by NOAA cops," Gloucester Times, by Richard Gaines
-------------------------UN thinks fishing is 'perverse'
2/21/11, "Green economies for growth, urges UN," BBC
"Governments have a central role in changing laws and policies, and in investing public money in public wealth to make the transition possible," said Pavan Sukhdev, head of the
- UN Environment Programme's (Unep) Green Economy Initiative.
"From phasing down and phasing out the $600bn global fossil fuel subsidies,
- to re-directing more than $20bn subsidies perversely rewarding
- those in unsustainable fisheries."
UNEP defined a "green economy" as one that resulted in "improved human well-being and
- social equity..."...
via GWP
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