Environmentalists

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has been wobbly at best in her position on protecting the interests of the fishing industry that is so vital to the New Bedford economy. In the waning days of his administration President Barrack Obama designated some 5-thousand square miles off the Atlantic coast as The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument...

Environmentalists and commercial fishermen both say they are fearful of proposed changes to the federal rules that govern New England's beleaguered cod fishing industry.  The rules govern an industry that has fed New England for centuries and is now in steep decline...