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Gloucester at the Crossroads
Our ongoing series on the nation’s oldest fishing port continues with a story of pollock and politics. Producer Sandy Tolan describes what happened when a Russian freighter came to port, and an anonymous tip to customs officials scuttled Gloucester’s plans to make fish fillets for McDonald’s.
Fed Advisor Says Restrictions Don’t Go Far Enough
Host Steve Curwood talks to Vaughn Anthony, chief science advisor to the Northeast region of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Despite the outcry by local fishermen over the new harvest restrictions, Anthony thinks the rules may be “too little too late” to save haddock and cod stocks.
New England’s Fisheries Crisis
Jennifer Ludden of member station WBUR in Boston reports on new federal measures to protect New England fishing stocks by placing heavy restrictions on some commercial harvests. Haddock and cod populations off New England have declined drastically in recent years, threatening a livelihood that was once a cornerstone of the New England economy.
Bering Sea Ecosystem in Trouble
Steve Heimel of the Alaska Public Radio Network reports on the decline in an array of wildlife species in the Bering Sea. Some in the area say the trouble is due to overfishing of pollock by the region’s factory trawler fleet. A possible downgrading of the northern sea lion from threatened to endangered status could […]
Canadian Fisheries Going Bust
The CBC’s John Calver reports from St. John’s, Newfoundland on the sharp decline in stocks of salmon and cod off northeast Canada. The Canadian government blames foreign vessels fishing just outside its territorial waters, but the decline may also be due in part to an unexplained change in a major ocean current.