Source: Tyler Dukes, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/8/11


Doug Rader learned one of his most powerful lessons from an angry man hauling a bucket of diseased fish.
As a new state official in the mid-1980s, Rader was running a town hall meeting on regulations for peat mining near marine habitats in Eastern North Carolina. With hundreds packed into a high school gym in Swan Quarter, a fisherman clad in waders emerged from the crowd, reached into his pail and smacked a sore-ridden specimen right on a desk.

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