March 2017 Comments on Democratic Process for Fisheries Management

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Comments on the New England fisheries decision-making process. Recent events have shown us how a defunct democratic process has made it easy for adopting fisheries management plans that are privatizing, consolidating, and corporatizing our public resource. This is deeply concerning and we recommend steps toward an immediate course correction.

NAMA Comments on Participatory Democracy

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