July 1, 2014 — Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine are among the East Coast states soon to receive grants for fisheries data collection improvements.
Data on commercial fishing is almost always described as inadequate for making sound decisions about quota and regulations.
States and the federal government have formed the Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP) to conduct research into data collecting.
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries will receive $139,094 to conduct a swipe card pilot project to record trip-level shellfish transactions.
Read the full story at the New Bedford Standard-Times