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Ed Markey: Protecting Georges Bank from drilling is critical to ensuring that efforts to rebuild and manage New England groundfish…

On the recordJune 5, 2013
Protecting Georges Bank from drilling is critical to ensuring that efforts to rebuild and manage New England groundfish stocks are not in vain.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes the importance of protecting Georges Bank for fishery management.

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