My NOAA Booklet

You can purchase my booklet from Amazon for reading on your Kindle or compatible device.

This booklet contains a compilation of the essays I have written on the mismanagement of the New England commercial fisheries by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA has been given the charter of regulating the fishing industry. The industry requires regulating as the fish in the sea are not an unlimited renewable resource. That having been said, NOAA has gone beyond the bounds of legitimate regulation and is attempting to completely restructure the industry into a tradable commodity like pork bellies or crude oil. The current management at NOAA is dominated by environmentalists such as the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

I am not a fisherman nor do I have any direct connection with fishing. I am a small government conservative and I am deeply troubled by the encroachment of the federal government in our day-to-day lives.

I grew up in the Gloucester area and on Memorial Day in 2010 I went to a family cookout. The conversation turned to the plight of the local fishermen. I went home and did some research. I found that NOAA was planning a series of outreach meetings for fishermen throughout New England. I went to two of these and was appalled. Book-smart twenty-somethings dictating to grizzled professional fishermen. Orwellian regulations and Star Chamber punishments.

I am an engineer and ride a desk/computer for a living. I write as a hobby and this series of essays for the American Thinker is my first published material outside of my profession. I choose AT as an outlet for several reasons, not the least of which is that AT accepts unsolicited submittals provided they meet the site’s rigorous standards. AT requires solid writing that adheres to the Chicago Manual of Style and citations in the form of hyperlinks. Their rule is, “Source all your quotes and any important factual contentions.”

AT also has a national, and indeed international, audience. In my researching of the fishing industry, I found that there was a good deal of information being published on the problems of the industry, but for the most part such publications where within the industry itself. The public in general was not getting the message.
I have an ulterior motive in this booklet. It is being set up as an e-book for the Kindle. This is a new medium to me and to most of us. The instructions from Kindle are reasonably clear, but as with any new technology there is a learning curve. Consider this booklet my first lesson.

I have retained the hyperlinks from the AT articles, but I have underlined them because some platforms for e-books are black and white so that colored links will not show up. I suspect that some platforms, perhaps all e-book platforms, will not accept hyperlinks. That is part of what I want to learn from this, my first lesson.