At a pivotal moment for the New England fishing industry, theEnvironmental Defense Fund, a lead advocate of catch shares, and twofishing industry news publishers are co-sponsoring informationalmeetings this week — one in New Bedford, one in Gloucester — on thehotly-disputed fishery regulatory system and its economic shift fromone of public-resource competition to managed market commodities.
EDF and the meeting sponsors, Seafood.com News andSaving Seafood (Savingseafood.org), assert the meetings are strictlyinformational and not promotional. The meetings, which are free to thepublic feature two Alaskans with experience in the catch share systemsin Alaskan fisheries.
EDF has agreed to underwrite the meetings. Seafood.comNews and Saving Seafood, which is published from New Bedford, arehelping with publicity. Both meetings will run from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.,with the Gloucester meeting set for Wednesday at The Gloucester Houseoff Rogers Street.
Read the complete story at The Gloucester Daily Times.
See also: Panel Discussion on Financial Issues related to catch shared Nov 10-11 in New Bedford and Gloucester