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Help Implement a Fair Fisheries Management System in Massachusetts and Maine

  • por: The Pew Charitable Trusts
  • destinatário: Governor Deval Patrick (Massachusetts residents) and Governor John Baldacci (Maine residents)
The New England Fishery Management Council will take a critical vote to amend its management plan for cod and other groundfish – Amendment 16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan – at its June 22-25 meeting in Portland, Maine.

Both Massachusetts and Maine are powerful forces at the Council and have votes in this process. Now is a crucial time for both states to take the lead in changing fishery management to protect family jobs and put an important part of their state and regional economies on a sustainable path.

We are asking you to make your voices heard with your Governor so that he directs his representatives on the Council to support fundamental changes in how the groundfish fishery is managed by treating all fishermen in the groundfish fleet equally. Please let your Governor know that fair is fair.
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Subject: DEIS Amendment 16

Dear Governor Patrick/Baldacci,

Please take action. Treat all fishermen fairly. End overfishing with annual catch limits and monitoring that hold ALL fishermen accountable.

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Thanks to decades of overfishing and federal mismanagement, New England's storied groundfish industry is in serious trouble, with cod and flounder populations plummeting.

Next week, the New England Fishery Management Council will vote on a new system that could start to turn things around. It would give New England nineteen community-based, fishermen-run cooperatives, called sectors, which would harvest groundfish based on a total annual catch limit. A robust monitoring system would ensure that when the limit is reached, fishing will stop -- giving fish populations a chance to rebuild.

Unfortunately, many fishing vessels have ignored the request for sector participation and will remain in the so-called "common pool," where guidelines for the new annual limits and monitoring have yet to be set.

Fishermen who have joined sectors (over half of the fleet) are seeking fairness by requesting that common pool vessels live by the same rules they do. If not, groundfish populations will continue to decline.

I therefore urge you to support fairness for all fishermen by instructing your representatives on the Council to vote for hard catch limits and robust monitoring for the common pool. The federal government has already allocated $10 million to help transition the entire New England fleet to the new monitoring system. It's time to act.
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Unfortunately, many fishing vessels have ignored the request for sector participation and will remain in the so-called "common pool," where guidelines for the new annual limits and monitoring have yet to be set. Fishermen who have joined sectors (over half of the fleet) are seeking fairness by requesting that common pool vessels live by the same rules they do. If not, groundfish populations will continue to decline. I therefore urge you to support fairness for all fishermen by instructing your representatives on the Council to vote for hard catch limits and robust monitoring for the common pool. The federal government has already allocated $10 million to help transition the entire New England fleet to the new monitoring system. It's time to act.

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