With experts being flown in from other regions, the New England Fishery Management Council is holding a two-day workshop on catch shares, the bitterly debated method of privatizing fish stocks and granting harvesting rights, later this month at the venerable and pricey Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, N.H.
The sponsorship by the council, an arm of the federal government, makes the event public. But while the workshop is thus open to all, the public has not been invited.
"The meeting is not intended for the public," according to an e-mail from the council in response to questions from a fishing industry member, "but there will be minimal space available for (public) observance of the meeting.
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