Public hearings - New limits for dozens more fish species
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A new fishery plan proposes limits for dozens of additional south Atlantic species, including some popular catches. Public hearings are set during the next two weeks in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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New Bedford Mayor responds to Council chief on Skates
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New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang has submitted a response to the New England Fisheries Management Council Executive Director Paul Howard's email to council members on Skates. The text of his letter follows:
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The Conservation Law Foundation Responds to Governor Patrick's Amicus Curiae
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This amicus curiae motion creates the unusual situation of a voting
member of the New England Fishery Management Council, see Patrick Amicus
Motion at 4, Docket No. 68, seeking to file an amicus brief challenging
the very fishery management plan that the amicus voted to approve. Id.
While CLF does not oppose the Governor’s motion to participate as amicus
curiae, CLF does have concerns with respect to several aspects of the
motion and its accompanying materials: timeliness, the length the
proposed memorandum, the scope of the motion’s argument, and the
extra-record and post-record materials it seeks to introduce into this
matter.
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Herring fishery caught in rules web
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Regulations are preventing midwater trawlers from taking any more herring on Georges Bank for the rest of the fishing year because of limits on haddock bycatch, a situation Brian Rothschild from UMass Dartmouth's School of Marine Science and Technology calls bizarre.
Since 2006, fishery regulations restrict herring boats to just 0.2 percent of the overall haddock quota. That amounts to just 86 tons, at the same time approximately 28,000 tons of haddock will remain uncaught by all fishermen, said Eoin Rochford, operations manager for Northern Pelagic Group. Norpel operates the herring trawlers Nordic Explorer and Dona Martita from its processing plant on Fish Island in New Bedford.
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2011 Northeast Seafood Coalition Raffle
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The Northeast Seafood Coalition is holding a big money raffle at the Gloucester House Restaurant on February 26, 2011.
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