Turtle Journey: the crisis in our oceans

What do you picture when you think of your home? Your home and mine might look quite similar, but we're still pretty unusual on the planet. Because for billions of animals on Earth, home is the ocean.

And this blue home is in crisis. Overfishing, plastic pollution, oil drilling and climate breakdown are gutting our oceans of life and disrupting delicate ecosystems.

It’s a tragedy that doesn’t get enough airtime, which is why we've teamed up with Aardman Animations — the creators of the beloved stop-motion series, Wallace and Gromit — to produce this powerful short video about what this exploitation is doing to ocean life.

We need as many people as possible to know about the urgent crisis unfolding in our oceans if we’re to change it. 

The video tells the story of an adorable family of sea turtles as they journey home, and is voiced by actors David Harbour, Helen Mirren, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, Giovanna Lancellotti, Bella Ramsey and Ahir Shah. It’s beautiful and lovable — but cuts straight to the heart of the issue.

The plight of sea turtles represents the suffering of our oceans as a whole. Six out of seven sea turtle species are threatened with extinction due to the pressures of multiple ocean threats.¹ Similarly, marine life is disappearing at twice the speed of life on land due to climate change.² This is a reality we can’t accept, Jessie, and we don’t have to.

Scientists have a plan that would help heal our oceans. They’ve said that if we can create a vast network of sanctuaries, we’d boost ocean resilience and give wildlife a chance to recover. And for the first time in history, there’s a process underway to make this possible: a UN Global Ocean Treaty.

But to make a strong Global Ocean Treaty happen we need a huge movement of people.

Please watch this powerful video with special guests Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren, and sign on to support a strong Global Ocean Treaty

It’s a little-known fact that keeping our oceans healthy and teeming with life is not just the right thing to do, it’s crucial for ensuring a safe future. This is because the vast array of amazing life in our oceans is one of our best allies in the fight against climate breakdown. Sea creatures naturally capture climate-wrecking carbon and store it away.³ Cool, huh?

This is why it’s so important to give our oceans a fighting chance. From the tiniest ocean critter to us humans: we’re all in this together.

Ocean sanctuaries work, and so does people power. We can change the fate of our oceans, but first we need people to know that they’re in crisis.

Thanks for all you do,

John Hocevar
Oceans Campaign Director, Greenpeace USA

[1] iucn-mtsg.org/about-turtles/  
[2] smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ocean-dwelling-species-are-disappearing-twice-quickly-land-animals-180972040/  
[3] storage.googleapis.com/planet4-international-stateless/2019/11/018c3eae-30x30-ocean-climate-report-greenpeace-2019.pdf 

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Save the Turtles, Protect the Oceans





Six out of seven sea turtle species are threatened with extinction. Watch their story and sign the petition calling for a global network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the turtles’ homes: http://www.greenpeace.org/turtlejourney Turtle Journey was created by Greenpeace and Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep), and features special guests Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, David Harbour, Giovanna Lancellotti, Helen Mirren, Bella Ramsey and Ahir Shah.

From fishing nets and oil spills to climate change and plastic pollution, the threats facing turtles and other sea creatures are getting worse every day. Now we have a chance to turn things around, by making the most vulnerable and important parts of our seas off-limits to destructive industries. 

Right now, until the final negotiating session on March 23, 2020, governments are coming together at a United Nations Intergovernmental Conference to work on a Global Ocean Treaty. If they get it right, it'll open the door to a vast network of ocean sanctuaries, which could protect over a third of the world's seas. 

Our oceans sustain all life on Earth — now they need us to protect them. 

Add your name to tell Evan Bloom, U.S. State Department Director of Ocean and Polar Affairs, to agree to a strong Global Ocean Treaty at the UN.

RSN: Mort Rosenblum | Empty Seas: Two

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CapeCodToday: SHNS: NOAA plans to stop paying for onboard environmental observers

Cost to fishermen of catch monitors draws ire of guv

NOAA plans to stop paying for onboard environmental observers

ARTICLE | BUSINESS | AUGUST 14, 2015 11:00 AM | BY ANDY METZGER, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

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Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday excoriated an upcoming federal mandate that will force fishermen to pay for environmental observers on their boats.

"This is about the most perfect example of an unfunded mandate," Baker said on the Gloucester shoreline, calling the policy "ridiculous" and "outrageous."

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has communicated to the fishing industry that it will stop footing the cost of the observers, who periodically join skippers and their crew to measure the fish hauled up from the seafloor.

New England Fisheries Management Council Executive Director Tom Nies told the News Service the policy, which is expected to go into effect in October, would affect most groundfish boats, which scrape cod and flounder and other fish from the seafloor.

NOAA had long planned to make fishermen cover the cost of the observers when changes were made to the way fishing is regulated in the area, Nies told the News Service. He said there is concern about the ability of the fishing industry to now cover the roughly $700 per day cost of bringing an observer onboard.

"That's the problem. The monitors are expensive and the fishery right now is in somewhat of a depressed state," Nies said.

Nies said NOAA had planned to implement the requirement in August, but it was pushed back to October.

"If they want to send observers out on the boats they should pay for them with their own money," said Baker, who said he is working on a letter to send to the U.S. Commerce Department.

Baker made his comments at an event with the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association, which the governor presented with a $5,000 check from his inaugural account.

Baker was hounded in the final days of his successful 2014 campaign about an emotional story he told at the final gubernatorial debate about meeting an unnamed fisherman remorseful that his sons might follow him into the business. Angela Sanfilippo, the president of the association, made clear that Baker's interest in one of the Bay State's oldest industries predated the froth of last October.

Sanfilippo said when Baker first ran for governor in 2010 he spent two hours with her seeking knowledge about the industry.

"He said, 'I want to know all about the fishing industry and the fishermen,'" Sanfilippo told the crowd, as a trawler heading out from Gloucester Harbor plied the waves behind her.

Baker also said he wants NOAA to expand the data it takes into account when setting catch limits, and he said he is supported in that effort by the state's Democratic delegation to Congress.

The state's groundfish industry, which has been entwined with its identity for centuries, is in dire straits as federal forecasts of cod and other fish have led to sharp declines in catch limits, according to industry officials and practitioners.

"At some point it's going to be too late," said Baker, a Swampscott Republican who said his town was a fishing town. Baker said his administration will bring "a sense of urgency and a sense of focus" to the issue and work on a bipartisan basis "on behalf of truth."

Commissioner of Fish and Game George Peterson, a former fisherman and former state representative, said the situation for the Massachusetts fishing industry has grown worse in recent years.

"It's gotten worse and there's a big hammer coming down right now," Peterson told the News Service, referring to the mandate that fishermen cover the cost of observers. Peterson said the anticipation that NOAA would transfer those costs was made "under a pretense that the stocks would be rebuilt."

Peterson said stocks of Gulf of Maine codfish are estimated at 2 percent to 3 percent of the amount federal officials believe necessary for the species numbers to rebuild. He said the mandate would put fishermen "out of business."

This fall state researchers plan to use their own methods to gauge fish stocks, differing from the approach used by NOAA, though it is an open question whether federal fishery regulators will take the state's data into consideration, according to Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton and Peterson.

Those employed in the fishing industry have claimed that the federal measurements dramatically underestimate the amount of fish off the shores of Massachusetts.

"I've been reading this stuff that NOAA's been putting out for a long time and all I do is end up with more questions when I'm done reading it than I had when I began," Baker told reporters. He said the state should leverage its educational institutions - some of which are already engaged on the subject - to provide more information to federal regulators.

An aide to Congressman Bill Keating, who represents the fishing communities in southeastern Massachusetts, said NOAA was able to delay the cost-shift of fishing monitors because fewer fishing trips have been made so far this season.

An additional $10 million is available in previously approved federal disaster money for the area's fishing industry, and some have suggested that money be used to cover the cost of observers, according to officials.

Nies said the idea that the federal disaster money fund the observers mandated by NOAA has not been well received by the fishing industry.

Gloucester Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken expressed her gratitude to Baker as the governor was presented with a special tray, a book and a bag on Thursday.

"Everything you said you were going to do you're doing and exceeding it, so thank you," Romeo Theken said as she fastened a pin onto the governor's suit. A former city councilor, Romeo Theken was appointed by the council to be mayor after the former mayor, Carolyn Kirk, joined the Baker administration.

Romeo Theken is vice president of the Fishermen's Wives Association, and she said her first husband was a commercial dragger who trawled for cod and flounder.

About the Author  »

Andy Metzger, State House News Service

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David Petraeus betrayed his oath of office, disgraced his uniform in a tawdry sex scandal.

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Glenn Greenwald | The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged

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Baltimore Police Commissioner Admits to Mistakes in Freddie Gray's Handling, Won't Resign

By Nina Golgowski and Jason Silverstein, NY Daily News

25 April 15

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altimore's police commissioner says he is not stepping down as a top police official admitted that Freddie Gray should have gotten medical attention the moment of his arrest – not after placed in a police van.

 

Commissioner Anthony Batts, speaking at a press conference Friday, admitted that his officers made mistakes during Gray's April 12th arrest which resulted in a fatal spine injury but he defiantly brushed off calls for him to resign.

 

“That’s not going to happen. I'm focused on my job. I'm focused on this investigation,” he said.

 

Batts' vow came as a top officer spearheading their investigation said that Gray should have been given medical treatment the moment he was handcuffed.

 

"That's quite frankly where Freddie Gray should have received medical attention and he did not," Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis said.

Police released this photo taken from surveillance video at the time of Gray's April 12th arrest. They're trying to
identify and speak with the person seen in the street who was filming Gray's arrest. (photo: Baltimore Police)

Batts added that despite Gray’s pleas for medical help, officers "failed to get him medical attention in a timely manner multiple times.”

 

Gray was also not buckled up inside of the van, he said, violating his department’s rules.

"No excuses for that, period," Batts said.

 

Instead the 25-year-old was placed in leg irons and driven to a police station. The 30-minute ride included three stops during which a second prisoner was added to the back.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said what happened to Freddie Gray while in police custody
earlier this month was 'absolutely unacceptable and I want answers.' (photo: Cliff Owen/AP)

It was only after their arrival that an ambulance was called when Gray was found struggling to breathe and unable to speak. He died a week later.

Davis said they're now looking into "each and every stop along the way."

"How long it took, the distance, the travel route," he said. "We need to know from A to Z what exactly occurred on each and every stop."

As of Friday Davis said five of six of their officers have given statements on the incident while the sixth continues to invoke their right not to speak.

 

Hundreds of protesters marched to Baltimore's City Hall Thursday for the fifth consecutive day of protests
over the police custody death of Freddie Gray. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Batts said they're particularly interesting in learning how Gray was seated inside of the vehicle and how he appeared before his arrival.

 

He said he's added more than 30 investigators to their task force and on Friday will submit their findings to the state attorney's office.

He called that "not the conclusion of our investigation" but "step two."

 

"We will continue to follow the evidence wherever it goes."

 

Earlier in the day the city's mayor also publicly spoke out saying what happened to Gray while in police custody was “absolutely unacceptable and I want answers.”

“A mother has to bury her child and she doesn't even know how or why this tragedy occurred only that this tragedy occurred while her child was in our custody, in police custody and this is not acceptable,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said at a press conference.

 

The mayor specified concern over police policies and procedures in Gray's transportation not being followed as well as the 25-year-old not immediately provided medical assistance when he requested it.

Rawlings-Blake’s stern words come less than a week after Gray's death, with his family’s attorney describing his spinal cord as nearly severing after placed in a police van for unclear reasons.

The mayor stressed her trust that an investigation into what happened will be “comprehensive, thorough and fair,” and that if necessary “we will hold the appropriate parties responsible.”

 

In the meantime she asked protesters to continue to exercise their rights, but in a peaceful manner.

Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan echoed that plea in his own statement on Twitter Friday which chiefly praised protesters for their civilized behavior.

 

“To date, the nature of these demonstrations have been a testament to Baltimore's strong character and our common commitment to peace and justice. It is my hope that events planned for this weekend continue to reflect positively on the community," he stated in part.

Hogan’s request follows more than 200 protesters descending on Baltimore’s City Hall and marching through rush hour traffic downtown Thursday afternoon, chanting and demonstrating against police brutality until about 10 p.m.

Some protesters antagonized the officers and state troopers on the scene, shouting insults and hurling objects, but no violence was reported.

 

“We’re not calling for revenge,” the Rev. Jamal Bryant of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple, one of several speakers outside City Hall, told the crowd.

 

“We’re calling for justice.”

 

Cell phone footage from the April 12 arrest of Freddie Gray, who died in a hospital a week later after suffering a
severe spinal cord injury while in police custody.(photo: WJZ-TV)

Two protesters were arrested, the department said on its Twitter page.

“We are listening to the concerns of the community while protecting their constitutional rights to protest and be heard,” the department tweeted hours into the protests.

 

On Thursday, a lawyer for the Baltimore police officers union said officers did not buckle Gray during the drive to the station, a potentially fatal oversight specifically prohibited by new guidelines approved by the department days before the 25-year-old’s death.

 

Lt. Brian Rice, the police supervisor suspended for Gray’s death, was accused in 2013 of stalking and threatening to kill a man as part of a “a pattern of intimidation and violence” that resulted in a temporary restraining order, according to an investigation published by the Guardian on Thursday.

 

And the man who filmed Gray’s arrest told the Baltimore Sun Thursday police had the man's body twisted like “origami” and “a pretzel” while apprehending him.

 

Gray suffered a massive spinal cord injury in custody and died a week later in a hospital. His cause of death remains unknown and the Justice Department announced Tuesday it is opening a federal investigation into the arrest.

 

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Killer Whales Forced to Steal Fishermen's Catch Due to Overfishing
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In his own words: Chapman reveals himself as TEA BAGGER!

CHAPMAN, JUST LIKE CHARLIE BAKER, OPPOSES CAPE WIND!

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In Own Words: 9th District candidates on Immigration


IN TODAY'S COMMITMENT 2014, WE LOOK AT THE RACE FOR CONGRESS IN THE 9TH DISTRICT. THIS INCLUDES PART OF THE SOUTH SHORE AND THE CAPE. INCUMBENT BEAT KEATING IS CHALLENGED BY REPUBLICAN JOHN CHAPMAN. HERE THEY ARE IN THEIR OWN WORDS ON THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION. THERE'S A SENATE BILL THAT HASN'T BEEN ACTED ON, BUT THE HOUSE BILL SHOULD BE ACTED ON BECAUSE I BELIEVE THERE'S A MAJORITY OF HOUSE MEMBERS. THE TROUBLE IS CONGRESS AND THE WAY IT'S POLARIZED AND PEOPLE NOT BEING ABLE TO CROSS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. SOMETHING I PRIDE MYSELF ON DOING. WE'RE LOSING, IT'S A BROKEN SYSTEM. THIS BROKEN SYSTEM HURTS ENFORCEMENT, NUMBER ONE. AND NUMBER TWO, AT THE HIGH END OF THE EDUCATION SCALE, WE'RE BRINGING THE BRIGHTEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HERE, EDUCATING THEM IN OUR COLLEGES AND THEN THEY WANT TO START A BUSINESS AND PRODUCE JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY AND WE'RE SENDING THEM BACK HOME. THEY'RE CUTTING DOWN PRODUCTION AND HURTING OUR REVENUES BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS TO HELP IN THAT REGARD. THE CURRENT SITUATION IS BROKEN AND WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT COMPREH COMPREHENSIVELY. I THINK THE VOTES ARE THERE TO DO IT. THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP SHOULD PUT IT ON THE FLOOR SO WE CAN VOTE ON IT. WE NEED IMMIGRATION AND NEED IT NOW. I THINK WE NEED TO SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST AND FOREMOST, THAT'S THE FIRST STEP. WE HAVE TO STOP THE MAGNETS ATTRACTING THE ILLEGALS IN THE COUNTRY. AND CRACK DOWN ON EMPLOYERS WHO ARE HIRING ILLEGALS. MY OPPONENT, BILL KEATING HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE TO ENHANCE BORDER SECURITY AND HE VOTED AGAINST THAT. I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR THAT. I BELIEVE IN LEGAL IMMIGRATION, NOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON FIRST AND FOREMOST RIGHT NOW. HEAD TO WCVB.COM FOR IN DEPTH INFORMATION ON THE CANDIDATES AND THE BIG ISSUES

Where the candidates stand: Keating vs. Chapman

U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., gives his opening statement next to his Republican opponent John Chapman during a debate at Monomoy Regional High School in Harwich on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014.Cape Cod Times/Christine Hochkeppel

 

By C. RYAN BARBER

rbarber@capecodonline.com

November 01, 2014

 

Although the issue of health care, particularly the Affordable Care Act, pushed John Chapman into the 9th Congressional District race, the economy has driven the campaign discussion.

 

Chapman, a Chatham lawyer running to unseat U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., has criticized the Affordable Care Act for creating confusion. But the chief reason he has cited for repealing what he exclusively calls “Obamacare” is his belief that the law is hurting businesses.


 

UNTRUE! GOTTA LOVE THE TEA BAGGERS THAT MAKE THINGS UP!

 

 

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After two terms in Congress, Keating has touted a record of voting “across party lines” to repeal the medical device tax, saving 141 jobs at Joint Base Cape Cod, and directing research and innovation grants to the district's research institutions and businesses.

 

Keating also points to his support for Cape Wind, an offshore wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound that Chapman opposes, as an economic boon that would not just bring jobs to the district, but supply the Cape and Islands with three-quarters of the region's electricity needs.

 

The two agree that investments in community colleges will fuel job growth, and both see reducing housing costs as a necessary step to attract young people to the Cape.

Here's where the congressional candidates stand on a handful of economic issues facing the region:

TOURISM

Chapman often discusses cutting back regulations on businesses, and that line of thought extends to the visa process for seasonal workers.

 

The seasonal workers who flock from their home countries to the Cape each summer give businesses the temporary staffing they need during the high-volume months. But recent changes to the H-2B visa program have made the process of hiring those employees more difficult, requiring employers to meet complicated requirements and file paperwork with four separate government agencies.

 

As part of his jobs plan, Chapman also said he would vote to reauthorize Brand USA, a public-private partnership program aimed at steering international travelers to the United States.

 

With his membership on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Keating said he already has worked to spur the Cape's tourism economy and to take down burdensome hurdles standing between businesses and seasonal employees.

 

Keating cites a proposal he has filed in each of his past two terms to streamline the visa process for returning seasonal workers who have already come to the United States. The bill struggled to pick up steam, but Keating envisions attaching it to an immigration bill should such legislation gain traction in the House.

 

“It allows them to go right to the top of the list and avoid all of the bureaucracy and immediately be approved to come back,” Keating said.

MINIMUM WAGE

On the proposal to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from the current $7.25, there is a clear choice between the candidates.

 

Keating believes the increase is overdue. It would help restore the middle class, he said, and “take more people out of poverty, make them more independent, have them go on their own, which is what we want in this country.”

 

The minimum wage “now has the same buying power it had in 1950,” he said. Raising the bottom pay level “would take more people out of poverty without raising taxes,” he said.

 

But before a crowd of teenagers this week at Monomoy Regional High School, Chapman said now is not the right time to raise base pay.

 

“We have a contrast here as well. I do not believe we should be raising the minimum wage at this point. I think it's a job killer. What we should be focusing on is investing in community colleges and voc-tech high schools.”

 

On this point – investing in community colleges – the two agree. Keating cites the millions of dollars he has helped steer to Cape Cod Community College and Massasoit Community College for job training programs, including money to help the Cape college start an airplane mechanic program at Barnstable Municipal Airport.

FISHING INDUSTRY

Chapman said he met last week with fishermen in New Bedford. The men wished they were out fishing, he said, but with the recent struggles facing the industry, they had time to sit down with him.

 

Rather than strike a balance between conservation and the industry, federal regulators have gone “too far to protecting the fisheries,” Chapman said.

 

In his jobs plan, Chapman said, he supports economic aid to “boat owners, crew members and shoreside workers who face unemployment after natural disasters.” And he recently criticized the $75 million in relief funding as including too little for the New England groundfish fishery, which received $33 million.

 

Although the most given to any one of the six affected fisheries, the $33 million gives local fishermen between $30,000 and $40,000 apiece, Chapman said, calling that total a “drop in the bucket.”

 

Keating has highlighted his forming of the first-ever Federal Fishing Advisory Board, a panel that provides government officials, scientists and fishermen an opportunity to discuss solutions. His first proposal in Congress was the Strengthen Fisheries Management in New England Act, which calls for funding improved management of fisheries with fines collected from the region's fishermen.

 

On the criticism of disaster relief funding, Keating said, “what he considers a drop in the bucket is slightly below the median income of the United State of America and shows his lack of understanding for what real people go through in life.”

 

But Chapman, who has often sought to cast Keating as out-of-touch and “invisible to the district,” said, “When I say a 'drop in the bucket,' I'm hearing that from the fishermen.”

 

Follow C. Ryan Barber on Twitter: @cryanbarber.

 

 

 

Like many fish stories, Baker just might have made stuff up.

OVERFISHING has caused the collapse of Massachusetts' Fishing Industry.

Defending WHAT? Overfishing?

Charlie Baker’s fisherman story should cause him anger, not tears

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Former Massachusetts' Senator Scott AKA 'Scooter' Brown's new gig?

Running for election in New Hampshire?

'Scooter' Brown was more successful taking his clothes off than running for office on his abysmal record.

New Hampshire voters would be well served to review Scooter's connections to Sticky Fingers Piontkowski and his best buddies at the New England Compounding Fiasco that KILLED and INJURED so many while promoting DEREGULATION.....and then there was that THING about his brother.....  

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Brown's new gig - New local fishing regs hurt - Globe to sell plant, move back downtown

US considering closing parts of Stellwagen Bank to anglers in move which would hurt tourism here - CC Times property worth over $2M

 

Article | Business | February 19, 2014 - 1:00pm | By Walter Brooks

 

Brown, the Globe and cod makes the news today.

Is Scott Brown a touring member of Cheap Trick?

He played with the band for the second time this weekend

Most politicians end up moving to DC and becoming a lobbyist after they leave office, but former U.S.

Senator Scott Brown seems to be doing it differently - moving to New Hampshire to run as their U.S. Senator and playing for a rock band.

Click here or on the image on the right to see him playing with Cheap Trick again.

The Boston Globe reports that he has ended his contract with Fox News which increases the speculation he will run for the U.S. Senate again - this time from New Hampshire.

A spokeswoman for the network said in December that if Brown authorized an exploratory committee to be formed, his on-air agreement would be terminated.

Brown will now be free to take on the NH Democratic incumbent Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

Read the story in Boston Magazine here.

US considering closing parts of Stellwagen Bank to anglers

Would hurt tourism here, Cod fishing a big attraction

Charter fishermen on Cape Cod are expressing great concern about a proposed regulation's effect on cod fishing tours. Stellwagen Bank Charter Boat Association president Charlie Wade said the regulations could close a 73-square-mile area of the ocean to the hook-and-line ground fishing that “defines this area”.

The association is a made up of Massachusetts USCG Licensed Captains and Mates operating on Stellwagen Bank and the Western gulf of Maine.

He added that closing the area is one option being considered by the New England Fishery Management Council.

Read the Boston Globe story here.

Globe to move to smaller building downtown

A move made by several other recently sold newspapers

The Boston Globe's new owner and publisher, Red Sox tycoon John Henry, says he is selling the sprawling 16-acre newspaper's site on Morrissey Boulevard and will move the region's biggest daily newspaper to a smaller facility downtown. The newspaper was original there a half century ago.

Worth almost what he paid for The Globe

Henry paid $70 million for The Globe and the Worcester Telegram recently, and real estate brokers in Boston estimate the property is worth $68 million.

Henry told Boston Magazine that selling the Morrissey Boulevard site “will provide us with the ability to move into a smaller, more efficient and modern facility in the heart of the city. We believe that there is enough excess value there to fund very important investments in our long-term future, if the community supports development of the property".

This is a move made by several recently sold newspapers as their revenue falls and profits disappear, the land they sit on is more valuable than the newspaper itself.

The New York Times reported last December that the Washington Post, the Detroit Fee Press and the Detroit News as well as the Tribune Media Company's newspapers like the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune were putting their property on the block.

Cape Cod Times property worth over $2 million

We wonder when our local daily newspaper's new owners will put the Main Street Hyannis property on the market as well.

The sales price has never been revealed, but the Barnstable Assessor's website says it's worth between $2.5 and $3 million dollars.

Dow Jones got $82 million for the entire group that Cape Cod Times was in. I don't think the price was broken apart. Remember that they cut 17 positions there in November and dropped several features - you don't need as much room when you keep cutting the staff and content.

 

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