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A recent court decision in Washington DC upholds controversial fishing closures in the Gulf of Maine. The closures were established last year to protect fragile fisheries—and they weren’t the first. After the New England cod fishery collapsed in the mid nineties, an area of ocean roughly one fifth the size of New Hampshire was designated off limits to ground fishing. But even after seven years without trawling in this area of the Gulf of Maine, the number of cod is still low. Many worry that there’s something else going on below the surface that could limit the fish population from bouncing back. As NHPR’s Kerry Grens reports, that something is likely to be found at the bottom of the ocean.

It's a perennial debate in the State House that's part of a much larger debate nationwide... medical malpractice reform. It pits trial lawyers against doctors against insurance agents as to how claims of medical negligence should be handled and settled. Despite deep concerns surrounding the economy, foreign policy and health care, medical malpractice reform stays a heated discussion. We'll explore the different sides of this debate and see why it continues to stay unresolved. Laura's guests are Dr Gary Woods, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Concord and immediate past president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. Paul M. Monzione, A lawyer practicing in Wolfeboro and Board Member of the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association. Stuart Altman, Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University and David Withers, Property Causulty Actuary at the New Hampshire Insurance Department.