NEW BEDFORD — Coverage of the fishing industry has won The Standard-Times a 2011 Publick Ocurrences Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA).
No more than 16 of these awards are made every year, and competition is intense.
The fishing material included in-depth coverage of the sector management and catch shares system that was imposed on the Northeast groundfishing fleet starting in May 2010.
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