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new hampshire

Ayotte lauds NOAA decision to reimburse fishermen

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), currently engaged in a heated battle to retain her seat, on Thursday praised the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's announcement that the federal government will help pay for programs to place catch monitors aboard commercial groundfishing fishing fleets. Ayotte had

Massachusetts

Fishing captains turn to digital tools to meet monitoring mandate

BOSTON – New England fishermen are starting to use digital cameras to document groundfish discards and prove they are fishing within established quotas, turning to technology for a method that may prove more cost effective than hiring human monitors. With support from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, The Nature Conservancy

Harvard University

Affirmative action battle brewing at Harvard

CAMBRIDGE — An organization currently suing Harvard, alleging that the university discriminates against qualified Asian applicants, is now fighting the Ivy League institution's efforts to force it to disclose its membership list and funding sources. Describing Harvard's request as "a fishing expedition," Patrick Strawbridge, an

Charlie Baker

Memo to Gov. Baker: Quotas are the opposite of fair

Governor Charlie Baker recently broke new ground by making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered-owned businesses the beneficiaries of government set-asides. The new "supplier diversity" order means that in a few years, a certain percentage of contracts entered into by