Fox News: ‘So-called expert bureaucrats’: Fishermen rip Sen Warren’s new plan to ‘silence’ them
Read the full story on Fox News. America’s seafood leaders are pushing back on new plans from Democrats on Capitol Hill to revive a legal doctrine that fishermen say threatens to “silence” them. On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led several of her Democrat colleagues in introducing the Stop Corporate Capture Act (SCCA), which she says […]
Daily Caller: Supreme Court Delivers Crippling Blow To Permanent Bureaucracy’s Power Over Americans’ Lives
Read the full story on Daily Caller. The Supreme Court handed small fishing companies a victory Friday in their lawsuits against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), overturning a decades-old precedent that expanded the power of the administrative state. Siding 6-3 with the fishermen, the Supreme Court reversed its 1984 landmark case, Chevron v. […]
Fox News: Supreme Court sides with fishermen in landmark case deciding fate of the administrative state
Read the full story on Fox News. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a group of fishermen who challenged a decades-old legal doctrine that they say gave the administrative state too much power over their business. In a 6-2 ruling where Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not participate, the court’s majority said […]
Fox News: Fishing industry reels over Biden’s destructive wind farm plan: It’s ‘coming at us from every direction’
Read the full story on Fox News. Time is running out for fishermen and women in the Northeast who fear their industry is being put at risk by the Biden administration’s renewable energy agenda. “Ground fishermen, lobstermen, whatever you are, you’re under the microscope right now, and it just seems to be something coming at […]
Fox News: Local fishermen slam Biden administration’s newly unveiled plans to industrialize Gulf of Maine
Read the full story on Fox News. A group of fishing associations is sounding the alarm about new plans from the Biden administration to industrialize the Gulf of Maine by leasing two million acres of area for wind farm construction, a move that fishermen say will be detrimental to their business and marine life. Last […]
Opinion: Give the fisheries back to the people
Read the full story on Portland Press Herald. The Supreme Court has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return control of New England’s fisheries to the people who have ably stewarded them for generations. In my experience as a lobsterman and fisheries advocate, elected representatives are at least sensitive to the needs and interests of fishing families. […]
Delano: Biden administration won’t leave lobstermen alone
Read the full story on the Boston Herald. Lawmakers and a federal appeals court last year defeated a federal plan to save endangered whales by eradicating New England’s lobster industry. With those plans undone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is crafting a workaround scheme to regulate lobstermen out of the fishery. Recent years […]
Biden admin’s new rule could put pinch on lobster fishermen while letting others off the hook
Read the full story on Fox News. FIRST ON FOX: The Biden administration is moving to impose stricter regulations to New England lobstermen in order to protect an endangered whale species – despite the lack of any evidence that lobster fishing harms the whales, according to critics. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is planning […]
Marine industry files lawsuit challenging legality of federal councils cracking down on fishermen
Read the full story on Fox News. FIRST ON FOX: A leading marine industry association is suing the federal government over what it argues is an unconstitutional bureaucratic system that is creating burdensome regulations by targeting blue-collar fishermen. The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA), which was founded in May to unite a variety of […]
Fishermen’s Alliance Highlights Offshore Wind Threat to Haddock, Lobster Fisheries in Gulf of Maine
Read more here at the Maine Wire. An alliance of groups representing New England’s fishermen is highlighting scientific research that suggests offshore wind development could have “population-scale effects” on key fish and crustacean species in the Gulf of Maine, including electromagnetism-induced deformities in lobsters. The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) on Monday released an […]