November 30, 2017 — As expected, interstate fishery managers will close the Gulf of Maine to commercial shrimping in 2018 for the fifth consecutive year because of the continuing perilous condition of the northern shrimp stock.
The northern shrimp section of the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission, which regulates shrimping in the Gulf of Maine, voted 2-1 on Wednesday in Portland, Maine, to continue the shrimping moratorium into the next fishing season.
Representatives from Massachusetts and New Hampshire voted to extend the northern shrimp closure into 2018, rejecting the campaign by some shrimpers and Maine’s panel representative to reopen the region for a scaled-back northern shrimp season.
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