Kerry really must be taking on even handed position on fishing -

[karynnj]

Before the fishermen complained, now the Cape Cod paper is complaining that environmentalists were not in the meeting he helped set up for NOAA and the fishermen.

n the latest genuflection to the fishing industry, Senator Kerry arranged a closed-door meeting last week among fishing industry representatives, national fisheries officials, and members of the state's congressional delegation.

Why were the doors closed to the press? According to some who attended the meeting, attendees discussed public policy issues related to a public resource.

Brigid O'Rourke, a spokeswoman for Kerry, portrayed last week's meeting as "a private stakeholders' meeting" requested by the Massachusetts fishing industry.

But Peter Shelley, vice president of the Conservation Law Foundation, described the session, which included no representatives from the environmental community, as "an industry-driven lobbying event."

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100401/OPINION/4010326/-1/NEWSMAP

Isn't the head of NOAA,Dr Lubchenco, who they were meeting with an environmental biologist, who is an environmentalist?

It looks so here - http://heinzawards.net/recipients/jane-lubchenco and the main issue sustainability appears to be her area.