Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Supports Evaluations of Catch Share Management Systems
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PALO ALTO - January 05, 2012 -- The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today a grant for five years to MRAG Americas, Inc. for annual, objective, publicly available assessments of the performance of the New England and Pacific groundfish catch share systems. Findings from these assessments will be compared to projected results with respect to ecological, economic, and social goals. Additionally, the evaluation will assess performance of the catch share systems against these goals from a pre-implementation baseline through five years of operation.
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NPR MORNING EDITION: New England Fishermen Brace For Cod Restrictions
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In New England, fishermen are bracing for what may be unprecedented restrictions or even a shutdown of cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine. Federal regulators say new data show cod as dangerously overfished, but fishermen say they don't believe that, and say drastic restrictions would be catastrophic. Three years ago, scientists found plenty of cod around. After years of overfishing, they said the stock had rebounded. But new data this season shows just the opposite.
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Once thriving urchin fishery needs management plan
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PORTLAND - During the heyday, Maine urchin fishermen harvested more than 40 million pounds of the spiny creatures a year. A move is now under way to jumpstart the industry, which has fallen on hard times and is just a skeleton of its former self.
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NMFS chief: Cod study is viable
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The administrator of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service has expressed confidence in the stock assessment science, that over a three-year period found nearly a 300 percent drop in the weight of spawning aged cod in the Gulf of Maine.
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Alaska fisheries excluded from federal plan over commercial objections
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With the Magnuson-Stevens Act up for reauthorization in 2012, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is still getting caught up on the requirements added to the law in 2007.
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