Political leaders and fisheries regulators are expected to join industry representatives Monday at a daylong discussion billed as the Northeast Fisheries Summit.
The summit, open to the public at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, comes at a time of high tension between regulators and the industry. The latter has been fighting back against what it views as overly restrictive catch allocations and harsh and arbitrary fisheries law enforcement.
The meeting is being co-hosted by Mayor Scott W. Lang's Ocean and Fisheries Council, the UMass School for Marine Science and Technology and the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute.
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