Gloucester's mayor and state legislative delegation will host fishermen and others tied to the commercial fishing industry Friday morning in a City Hall meeting to exchange insights and track problems in the six-week-old rollout of Amendment 16 — the new groundfishing regimen that mixes catch share fishing cooperatives and "common pool" holdouts still working independently.
The meeting in Kyrouz Auditorium will be hosted by Mayor Carolyn Kirk, state Sen. Bruce Tarr and state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante and is scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The session is the second of its kind hosted by Kirk, Tarr and Ferrante. The first was held May 7. That was less than a full week after the May 1 start of the fishing year, when the new regulatory scheme debuted to exasperated complaints that the system was filled with conceptual and technical glitches.
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