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Too Few Fish in the Sea - Editorial
- Bangor Daily News
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7/13/2006 |
| The National Marine Fisheries Service recently painted a rosy picture of the country's ocean fisheries, noting that most fish species are not being over harvested. | |
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We need stronger, not weaker, limits on fishing - Editorial
- Kennebec Journal
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7/12/2006 |
| Rep. Tom Allen is spearheading an effort to blunt the worst aspects of a House bill that would roll back the already weak laws that control how much commercial fishing we allow in the nation's waters. | |
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| 6/29/2006 | |
| The commercial fishing industry is threatening our coastal fish stocks. A May 2003 study published in Nature magazine found that populations of large ocean fish such as tuna have declined by 90 percent in 50 years. | |
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Senate fishery law rewrite a step in the right direction - Editorial
- Portland Press Herald
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6/25/2006 |
| Decades of mismanagement and overfishing have left New England's once-astonishing groundfish stocks near collapse. A rewrite of the nation's ocean-fishery law passed last week by the U.S. Senate may give them a better chance to recover. | |
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| 6/1/2006 | |
| "Bycatch" is the term for fish and other seafood fishermen pull in with their haul, but do not take to market. It is usually thrown overboard. | |
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| 6/1/06 | |
| Federal fishing regulators aren't doing enough to reduce what's known as "bycatch"--that is, fish that are caught inadvertantly and thrown out. | |
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Fish Failings - Editorial
- Bangor Daily News
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3/8/2006 |
| As federal regulators and regional fisheries managers continue to debate how much time commercial fishermen can spend fishing, the need for a different approach becomes more obvious. | |
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| 3/29/2006 | |
| A coalition of environmental groups is blasting the federal government, for the way it regulates commercial fishing. | |
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| 3/29/2006 | |
| PORTLAND, Maine A new report from a Maine environmental group says nearly half of the fish stocks in New England's ocean waters are in jeopardy from overfishing. | |
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All election-year spending is local
- Portland Press Herald
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3/26/2006 |
| The federal budget - in contrast to spending bills that actually deliver money - is largely a political document because it makes promises that are often ignored in last-minute legislative bartering. | |
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City's deal on landfill in trouble
- Sun Journal
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3/24/2006 |
| AUGUSTA - Lewiston's ability to contract out the operation of its landfill was dealt a serious setback Thursday, threatening to throw the city's budget into turmoil. | |
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Perils of overfishing
- Bangor Daily News
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2/8/2006 |
| The editorial, "Fisheries Im-provement" (BDN, Jan. 17), shed some much-needed light on the perils of overfishing. | |
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Supporting Downtowns
- Bangor Daily News
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2/21/2006 |
| Lawmakers have a chance to put some much-needed money into a program to revitalize Maine's downtowns. They should approve the modest budget request - $300,000 - to expand the Maine Downtown Center's Main Street program. | |
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People who need people in Maine
- The Phoenix
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1/25/2006 |
| Nearly 100 Maine social and environmental activists are in the final stages of drafting a strategic plan they hope will bolster their work. The unified plan will be submitted to the Blueprint Project, a program sponsored by the public foundation the Proteus Fund, based in Amherst, Massachusetts. | |
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Baldacci: Maine's 'healthy'
- Sun Journal
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1/19/2006 |
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