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NEW BEDFORD — Bristol Community College will offer a four-course
program to prepare people for jobs as At-Sea and Dockside Groundfish
Catch Monitors.
“Right now, there is a need for more than 100 people locally to enter these jobs,” said Robert Rak, professor of engineering technology at Bristol Community College. The college will hold a free information session on the program on Friday, Jan. 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Room 161 of the Bristol Community College New Bedford Campus, 188 Union St. The session will discuss the program and the qualifications for it, which include a high school diploma and math proficiency. Monitor candidates cannot have any connection to commercial fishing. Monitors work in ports and on domestic commercial fishing vessels, tracking the landings and discards of fish. It grows out of the New England Fishery Management Council’s Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. Read the complete article at South Coast Today [Subscription] note: The Standard-Times is a subscription site. Unregistered visitors are able to read three stories per month, and registered visitors may view ten. For unlimited access, please follow the subscription instructions on the site.
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Will catch shares do the trick? by Lisa Duchene
I support catch-shares in principal, and I support ending overfishing and bringing fisheries into balance.
But will this latest regulatory overhaul and the catch-share system help rebuild New England’s traditional fisheries? I don’t know, but I certainly hope ― and pray ― it will.
Hopefully, when the stocks return, there will still be New England fishermen around to catch them.
