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420,000-square-foot Boston seafood processing facility proposed |
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The Boston Redevelopment Authority has given a limited liability corporation tentative designation to create a 420,000-square-foot "soup to nuts" seafood processing facility — docks, auction storage, transport — at the tip of the Marine Industrial Park on the south side of the main channel into Boston Harbor.
The expressed aim of the $70 million American Seafood Exchange project is to ensure that the Port of Boston "retains existing fishing boats and attracts additional boats from elsewhere in New England and along the East Coast," the would-be developers explained in a PowerPoint presentation provided to the Times. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times.
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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."
