NEW BEDFORD, MA (December 4, 2008) – Representatives of the city’s groundfishing industry are headed to Washington, D.C., to speak with federal regulators about fishing policy concerns raised during a May summit in New Bedford.
Topping the agenda are three key concerns: how to maximize the harvest of healthy fish stocks; how to reduce bycatch, or fish caught unintentionally and thrown overboard (usually dead or dying) due to regulatory limits; and how to manage large swaths of ocean that have been closed to fishing for years.
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