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The Canastra brothers, who own and operate the leading seafood auction
house in New Bedford, the country's most lucrative port, are poised to
extend their reach in the business by opening a new seafood auction mart
this week in the nation's oldest port.
The new Gloucester enterprise — which is set to take landings beginning on Wednesday and hold its first auction Thursday morning — is being launched in a facility owned by Vito Giacalone, policy director of the Northeast Seafood Coalition and founder of the Gloucester Permit Bank, which holds $10 million worth of community rights to buy and broker shares of the fishery's harvest. Read the complete story in The Gloucester Times Read the press release for more information about BASE Gloucester
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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."
