Now that it looks like Scituate fisherman Frank Mirarchi may get what he’s asked for, he’s also looking a lot of hard work to make it turn out right.
Mirarchi has been working — both on his own and as a member of the local nonprofit Friends of South Shore Fisheries — to get the government to change the way that it limits the commercial fishing of groundfish such as cod or flounder.
On June 25, the New England Fisheries Management Counsel voted to amend the rules to allow groups of fishermen to form cooperatives, called sectors, which would each be limited in the pounds of fish they could catch. By joining a sector, fishermen are no longer affected by previous regulations, which limit days at sea and which Mirarchi called ineffective and unwieldy.