April 9, 2013 — You might think just about every avenue is being explored to help salvage at least something of the remaining groundfishing fleet. Yet, that may not be the case.
In pulling together a community forum for Wednesday night at The Gloucester House, local activist and former city councillor Valerie Nelson has touched on at least one new alternative — the idea of NOAA redeploying some of the likely sidelined fishing boats to help the agency carry out the kind of credible, cooperative research that NOAA and the industry desperately need. And the 7 p.m. Wednesday forum, which will draw from speakers like The Northeast Seafood Coalition’s Vito Giacalone and retired MIT ocean science professor Damon Cummings of Gloucester, can no doubt raise other potential solutions as well.
Read the full editorial at the Gloucester Daily Times