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Standard-Times team wins jourmalism award for fisheries coverage
NEW BEDFORD — Coverage of the fishing industry has won The Standard-Times a 2011 Publick Ocurrences Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA).
 

No more than 16 of these awards are made every year, and competition is intense.

The fishing material included in-depth coverage of the sector management and catch shares system that was imposed on the Northeast groundfishing fleet starting in May 2010.

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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager

May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."