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Article: Help fishing industry.(Editorials)(Congress should approve $60 million in aid)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2007
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Byline: The Register-Guard
If the West Coast's beleaguered fishing industry doesn't get federal disaster assistance soon, there may be no fleet left when - and if - the salmon some day return.
Last year, Congress spent oceans of time discussing the plight of coastal fisheries and restructured the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the premier federal law regulating ocean fisheries. Thanks to a monumental push by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Gordon Smith, R-Ore.; and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the law included a formal declaration that the West Coast fishing industry is facing an economic disaster.
Yet Congress failed to approve ...