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Article: Bill Hogarth's NMFS.(Editor's log)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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A kid around town who mowed lawns took on more work than he could handle--this back in the 1960s before the proliferation of overpriced "hand-crafting" landscapers--and went looking for help.
"The pay's not good," he told us, "but the hours are long." Summer was short, and he didn't get any takers.
There are still plenty of jobs that fit that description, and as far as I'm concerned, running NMFS stands out among them.
Bill Hogarth took the job anyway, more than six years ago.
It was not a stretch--he'd first joined the agency in 1994, and he was involved with North Carolina fisheries before that--and so despite the fact that he knew ...