Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk is set to brief the City Council tonight on the two-day assessment trip to Gloucester next week by the U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration as part of regionwide attention to ports suffering under a new federal fisheries regimen.
Eleven EDA representatives will be in Gloucester, a Commerce Department spokeswoman said Monday.
The agency's approach is being modeled on the federal effort in communities on the Gulf of Mexico after the massive April 2010 oil well rupture, agency officials have said.
Among the findings, she said, would be "new and existing resources to leverage" and "economic development strategies."
The teams will "develop a customized report for each community that outlines both short- and long-term solutions for economic diversification and resiliency," Mesidor said.
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