WASHINGTON, DC (January 7, 2009) – Teacher, fisherman, furniture maker, marine scientist–there isn’t much that University of Massachusetts Dartmouth professor Brian Rothschild can’t do and do well.
Luckily for the city of New Bedford, sometime in the 1990s he set his mind on seeking ways to save the local scallop fishery. A little over a decade later, scallops have made the city the biggest fishing port, in terms of dollars worth of seafood caught, in the United States.
Read the tribute in full at Congressman Frank’s official website