Cuts in the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration can reduce the number of collected combes this season. Less information about fishing health decreases to harvest.
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Some commercial fishermen are looking for harsh rules due to the cuts of President Trump’s national ocean and atmospheric administration. From our membership station, the radio radio, Ben Burke, which will rise to the highest rough fishing port of Skallop ships.
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Ben Burke, Byline: Sea Scallop is the most valuable catch on the east coast. And this year, the federal government considers new rules. It will see that the Skallop boats in the new Bedford, Massachusetts, 25% decreased by the new rules.
Eric Hanson: It is a little climbing. You got – go down here.
Burke: Eric Hanson (pH) has two combat boats. On the delicate deck, President Trump works in NOAA says there are many talks on the waterfront on leaking. However, Hanson, most of the fishermen still do not know how it will affect them.
Hanson: Some people meet the cuts, saying that the government is the collapse. There is a lot of regulation and I don’t share this idea.
Burke: It remembers when Hanson, Scallop fishing rock bottoms.
Hanson: I returned in the 80s when there was very little regulation, and fishing was almost in the state of collapse. We did not catch his last skin, but we tried.
Burke: In the 190s, fishermen collaborated with NOAA to rescue fishermen. Many boat owners like Hanson are now voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily to collect the information they use to keep a look close to Skallop populations. Hanson also serves the new UK Fishing Management Council, which uses this information to determine the resistant detention limit.
Hanson: I wanted to make sure that I have the future for my son and grandchildren, taking into account the long history in my family and industry. If you have a good information is the only way to manage.
Burke: The most profitable fishheldes, NOAA, the ships of scientists have traveled to ships, fishing and worshiping, leading to the statistical results that lead to statistical results. However, some of these scientists, such as fish biologist Sarah Weisberg (pH), said they were fired last month.
Sarah Weisberg: You know, my phone began to brighten and everyone around me, other people are essentially the same email, words for words, and hundreds of people – 1000 people.
Burke: Weisberg, Cod and haddock was about to go out to a survey to collect underground information. He says NOAA had to cancel the survey, because there are not enough scientists. One staff confused each other, but Weisberg, if NOAA canceled future surveys, it will damage one of the agency’s mission-critical services.
Weisberg: We really know what happened in the sea, really.
Burke: Weisberg and other scientists can get their work back in a federal claim. However, Janet Coit, who manages the NOAA fishing road until January, says the Trump management is still trying to cut an extra thousand jobs within the agency. He says it does not actually empty any fishing rules.
Janet Coit: The law eliminating the needs of the rules was not accepted. Are still required. Therefore, if you reduce the number of people working on the rules, in fact, you can get the works gum and reverse.
Burke: A spokesperson for NOAA refused to comment. However, the owner of the Scallop Boat Eric Hanson, losing the loss of fishing scientists will lead to drowning of fish populations. As a member of the British Fishing Management Council, Hanson says it will be required by law to move more cautiously and determine the limit of harshness. As a fisherman, he expects his staff to feel the effect of next year.
Hanson: Less sources for science will receive a smaller salary, which means in the simplest terms.
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Burke: Intreepid spent about 40 days in the sea last year. Hanson expects to be less fishing next year. Ben Burke in New Bedford, Massachusetts for NPR News.
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