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Jeanne Shaheen: “And in my small State of New Hampshire, where we only have 18 miles of coastline, we have 5,000 jobs dependent on this…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2013
And in my small State of New Hampshire, where we only have 18 miles of coastline, we have 5,000 jobs dependent on this industry. So in Rhode Island and Alaska, I am sure my colleagues have a significant number of jobs dependent on the fishing industry. What happens to those jobs if the industry doesn't survive? They are gone.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire
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Jan 28, 2013

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