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Archive for April 1, 2009
Maine’s groundfishermen struggle to survive
April 1, 2009 by Sara Zoe.
from The Working Waterfront comes an article detailing some of the particular challenges of fishermen today — along with some of the solutions that are fighting back and trying to make a dent in a hard outlook while still keeping to rules that will help rebuild fish stocks for the future: direct to consumer sales, local processing, and in Massachusetts, a cooperative buying program to make sure permits stay in small-scale fishermens hands, v. going to the large corporations. These are initiatives that need a lot more support, and need to be implemented much more broadly.
Maine’s groundfishermen struggle to survive
by Muriel L. Hendrix
“Never in a million years did I imagine I would leave the fishery at 46 years.”
Craig Pendleton of Saco, who began lobstering when he was nine, groundfishing at 17. He sold his groundfshing permit in October 2008.
If an interim rule is passed by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the 70 fishermen who land groundfish in Maine face the possibility of further reductions in the number of days they can spend at sea (counted from the time they leave the dock) and numerous other restrictions. The rule includes a provision that would increase the two for one area, where each day a fisherman uses will be counted as two. For most Maine fishermen this would mean ending up with 20 allowable fishing days.
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