(May 11, 2006) Port of New Bedford Business Alliance' s Gene Soccolich presents testimony on behalf of commercial fisheries interests to the US House of Representatives Subcommittee.

"Reauthorization of the MSA has been delayed some six years seemingly due to very divergent viewpoints of involved parties. Although I have found those viewpoints most often quite skewed on the issue of appropriate management of the country’s marine fisheries, they are at least in the right direction, which requires more cohesive perspective. Of primary note, only one of the major interested parties to the bill has a direct personal stake in its outcome - the commercial fishermen. Everyone else gets to go home to an unaffected family."

Read the full text of the testimony by the Alliance's Gene Soccolich.