Economic Impact
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Major marine trade show coming to New Bedford |
| The announcement that a major marine trade show will be coming to New Bedford this June brought good news not just for city officials but also for the owners of the city's new hotel. | |||
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Scallop deal seen as sign of catch-share trade |
| Struggling groundfish interests have agreed to give the thriving scallop industry about 200,000 pounds of yellowtail flounder from its allocation for 2010 for future considerations. | |||
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Council comments on UMass' Dan Georgianna's review of Council economic analysis |
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These comments on Economist Dan Georgianna's review of the Council's
economic analysis was posted by the New England Fisheries Management
Council as part of the package of documents in preparation for the
scallop reconsideration scheduled at the Council meeting in Portsmouth,
NH. Professor Georgianna has commented on the comments. |
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BCC to hold info session on fish monitor jobs |
| NEW BEDFORD — Bristol Community College will offer a four-course program to prepare people for jobs as At-Sea and Dockside Groundfish Catch Monitors. | |||
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Council Discussion of Economic Impacts Scallop Framework Adjustment 21; and Georgetown Economics' response |
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This "discussion" was posted by the New England Fisheries Management
Council as part of the package of documents in preparation for the
scallop reconsideration scheduled at the Council meeting in Portsmouth,
NH. The council staff states that it is intended to clarify how
different perspectives and methods used in outside analyses produced
different results compared to the analyses in the FW21 document.
As the document references a Georgetown Economic Services study submitted to NMFS by the Fisheries Survival Fund, Saving Seafood requested a response from the economist who conducted the study. |
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Lubchenco has one easy way to help local fishermen by Hoff Stauffer
At a meeting with local fishermen last week, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said: "We have a lot of work to do ... We can make it better."
She has at least one option for making it better right away. She can increase the 2010 annual catch limits by 33 percent, simply by redressing the balance on the National Oceanic and Administration's treatment of uncertainty.
