And the president's Commerce chief — really Lubchenco's superior, though he embarrassingly stood by her lack of any response and respect to and for the likes of Congressmen Barney Frank, John Tierney and others who requested similar changes earlier this year — vowed late last month to revisit NOAA's excessive enforcement against fishermen and related businesses in past cases. That was an open slap to Lubchenco's chief NOAA legal counsel, Lois Schiffer, whose position to not revisit and right past NOAA wrongs had stood as an affront not only to the fishing industry and its backers, but to any sense of American justice.
Editorial: Don't pop corks yet over feds' change of heart on fishing limits » Opinion » GloucesterTimes#com, Gloucester, MA
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