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[The Larch]

Hey Seedy, ever dropped these guys a resume?

Seafood fraud cases plummet as NOAA cuts investigators

Despite increases in fish importation and consumption, in the U.S., fraud cases have plummeted as NOAA cuts investigators.

In a sprawling warehouse five miles inland from the port of Newark, N.J., Special Agent Scott Doyle was dwarfed by the metal shipping container that had just arrived from Indonesia and was headed to Maryland. It held 14 tons of pasteurized crabmeat, packed into 28,008 one-pound cans.

To Doyle, who has been an investigator for 27 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization, the container held mysteries — and the potential for crimes. He's seen a lot over the years, enough to know that the crab might have been taken in violation of quotas or traded to another company with forged papers or repackaged as more expensive Maryland blue crab. It might even be a front for smuggling drugs or guns.

It's Doyle's job — and that of a shrinking band of fellow investigative agents — to sift those possibilities from the flood of crabmeat, fish and other imported and domestically harvested seafood.

Seafood fraud is a highly lucrative enterprise. American consumers ordering a sushi platter, fried crab cake, broiled sea bass or other seafood might not realize that about 25 percent of all wild-caught seafood imports are part of the illicit trade, according to a study published this year in the journal Marine Policy. Those illegal imports are worth $1.3 billion to $2.1 billion annually across the United States, the world's second-largest importer of seafood.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-fish-cops-20141206-story.html

[Syt]

[Ideologue]

Has Arianna Huffington been always so out of it? I started to follow her on Facebook and she just posts some feel good nonsense all the time. Latest - praising Modi for practising yoga (that's like praising Hitler for being a vegetarian).

He only did it for health reasons.  He wasn't going to impose it on the world or anything.

[Brazen]

Hey Seedy, ever dropped these guys a resume?

Seafood fraud cases plummet as NOAA cuts investigators

To Doyle, who has been an investigator for 27 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization, the container held mysteries — and the potential for crimes.

They'll rue the day they decided to mess with... POLICE SQUID!!!

[The Larch]

[Malthus]

Hey Seedy, ever dropped these guys a resume?

Seafood fraud cases plummet as NOAA cuts investigators

To Doyle, who has been an investigator for 27 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization, the container held mysteries — and the potential for crimes.

They'll rue the day they decided to mess with... POLICE SQUID!!!

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/20/new-police-pursuit-ending-device-inspired-by-spiderman-squid/

[CountDeMoney]

Hey Seedy, ever dropped these guys a resume?

Why?  One of the walkaways of the article is that there aren't enough investigators anymore because the Federal government is gutting positions.  Kinda tough to apply to an agency that is only not hiring, but shrinking.
I've stopped wasting my time with the government a couple months ago.  I'm not a veteran.

[Sheilbh]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/guardian-begins-annual-ruining-of-christmas-2013121081891

[Martinus]

This is exactly what happened to me lately:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-michelson/facebook-friend-one-night-stands_b_6293812.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050

Incidentally, is it normal that until that happened I did not know the last names of most of these guys?

[Eddie Teach]

Incidentally, is it normal that until that happened I did not know the last names of most of these guys?

A bit slutty, perhaps. 

[The Larch]

Hey Seedy, ever dropped these guys a resume?

Why?  One of the walkaways of the article is that there aren't enough investigators anymore because the Federal government is gutting positions.  Kinda tough to apply to an agency that is only not hiring, but shrinking.
I've stopped wasting my time with the government a couple months ago.  I'm not a veteran.

Yeah, I know it paints a bleak picture, but I figured it'd be a field that interests you, what with dealing with environmental protection and being close to home. Things might cange in the future. 

[Zanza]

Does she ever have that small flag as a lapel pin? Never saw that on her.

[Sheilbh]

Today in British news:

ARISTOCRAT THREATENED LOVER WITH KNIVES WHILE HIGH ON MDMA   
FULHAM, SOUTHWEST LONDON; SCARBOROUGH, YORKS

An aristocrat threatened his girlfriend with a pair of ten inch kitchen knives in the street while high on MDMA, a court heard today (Tues). James Lumley-Savile, 39, great-great-grandson of the Eighth Earl of Scarborough, flew into a drug fuelled rage at his partner Inda Pap that left witnesses fearing for her life. The heir to the title Baron Savile waved the blades around above his head at his terrified girlfriend outside his £800,000 Fulham home, jurors heard. A minicab driver Ms Pap called in a bid to escape her angry boyfriend told Isleworth Crown Court he thought the Eton educated businessman was 'going to kill her.'

- See more at: http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/newsgallery/?public_id=39232#sthash.ESahOjvS.dpuf

[Martinus]

A Pole wins the Internets!

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/09/youtube-biggest-hits-2014-mutant-spider-dog

[garbon]

So this bar opened up in place of what had been a long running gay latino bar (around the block from where I lived in SF). The former bar was rather foul and smelled like a mix of bleach and bodily fluids - I went a grand total of once. Peeps on my facebook are now suggesting that people boycott the nice looking one as it "gentrified away" the former bar.

http://sfist.com/2014/12/08/now_open_in_former_esta_noche_space.php