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Fleet Diversity Gains Traction - NAMA Newsletter Decmber 2010
A critical step forward in the battle to save the community-based fleet took place two weeks ago when the New England Fisheries Management Council voted to address fleet diversity as a priority in the upcoming year. This marks a sea-change of sorts considering Fleet Diversity was off the council’s radar as recently as last spring. The change is the direct result of many of you choosing to weigh in through your signature, testimonies and other means.
The vote marks a culmination of efforts by NAMA and our partners including fishermen, food system activists, community advocates,
A diverse fleet is essential for healthy oceans.and non-profit allies who traveled to testify, recorded video, signed our petition, and spread the message that ‘Who Fishes Matters’. Together, we worked to ensure family based fishermen and fishing communities are fairly represented and protected in the new Catch Share regime. We are forging the path toward a shared Fleet Vision and now look to the challenges ahead. The vote also marks the beginning of a much more difficult and perhaps protracted battle: How do you define Fleet Diversity? And how do you achieve fleet diversity? Based on the Fleet Vision Project, which has a clear vision statement on Fleet Diversity, and evidence from other Catch Share programs the measures we feel will ensure the diversity of the fleet include: fishing quota set-asides that invest in fishing communities, leasing policies that foster an affordable fishery, owner-operator incentives, opportunities for new and/or younger fishermen to enter the fishery, and accumulation limits.
Each of these measures tackles a different aspect of a diverse fleet and ultimately will ensure an ecologically viable and sustainable ecosystem supporting an economically and socially just fishery. However no single measure in and of itself will work to ensure a diverse fleet.
Allocation caps are a proven means to prevent the kinds of consolidation that are a hallmark of Catch Share programs, the most egregious exam
Cape Cod Hook Fishermen's CSFple being the Mid Atlantic Ocean Quahog/Surf Clam fishery where uncontrolled consolidation resulted in around 90% of all permits being owned by two banks. Quota owners were effectively able to control how, when and how much fish was brought to shore and the price paid to the fishermen. This was also the case in some of the Alaska crab fisheries. Allocation caps simply prevent one person, corporation, or entity from gaining unfair leverage over markets, pricing, and the political process. Policies addressing leasing of fishing rights should foster an affordable fishery not one where leasing leads to consolidation of the fishing fleet and aggregation of fishing rights by a few fiscally-powerful players. Leasing restrictions existed under the previous management system called Days at Sea, which effectively controlled the flow of leasing between classes of boat sizes. For example, a 90ft. boat could not lease from a 40ft boat. Currently there is no such leasing policy under Catch Share management. Such policies can help protect a diverse fleet as well as maintain the cost of leasing at an affordable rate. The key is to design such policies with an eye toward preventing gross consolidation and concentration of fishing power while at the same time allowing enough flexibility for fishermen to trade fishing quota as necessary, and enter and leave the fishery without devaluing their permits.
- Fishing quota set asides can be used for any number of purposes:
- Ensuring younger fishermen have an opportunity to enter the fishery.
- Enabling Owner/operators, crew and captains to maintain reliability and dedication to stewardship and safe fishing standards while providing security.
- Quota set aside for adaptive management to enable adjustments to new scientific information and thereby helps achieve ecosystem goals.
- Conservation set-asides to reward ecologically sound fishing practices with additional quota (not to exceed accumulation limits).
- Research set-asides, which are already options in the New England management system should remain so.
Lastly, owner-operator incentives are a way to ensure that fishermen are the primary holders of permits as opposed to banks, financial speculators and absentee quota holders. Other Catch Share programs with no owner-operator incentives resulted in a “tenant” fishery, where the majority of permit owners lease their rights to fish and the majority of fishermen on the ocean rent their rights to fish. Experience tells us that a sea-tenant fishery undermines community values and ocean stewardship.
Fishes and LoavesThe above measures are just a few and we are actively working with and learning from communities who have adopted similar or additional measures to ensure fleet diversity. None of these measures in and of themselves will prevent excessive fleet consolidation. In fact, in many Catch Share programs where only one or a couple measures are put in place industrial fishing operations have been able to sidestep the restrictions. In the worst-case scenario, such as the Ocean Quahog/Surf Clam, fishery managers are now trying to retrospectively clean up the mess. We can learn from others’ mistakes.
Here in New England the NEFMC has the opportunity to be proactive, ensure we don’t head down the same road as the Ocean Quahog/Surf Clam, and their recent vote was an important step forward to secure a just and sustainable fishery, but much work remains. We’ll be looking for more testimonies, video or in-person, to support maintaining and preserving a diverse fleet and moving towards a shared fleet vision.
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Fleet Diversity Gains Traction - NEFMC Votes to Make Fleet Diversity a Priority in 2011
A critical step forward in the battle to save the community-based fleet took place two weeks ago when the New England Fisheries Management Council voted to address fleet diversity as a priority in the upcoming year. This marks a sea-change of sorts considering Fleet Diversity was off the council’s radar as recently as last spring. The change is the direct result of many of you choosing to weigh in through your signature, testimonies and other means.
The vote marks a culmination of efforts by NAMA and our partners including fishermen, food system activists, community advocates, and non-profit allies who traveled to testify, recorded video, signed our petition, and spread the message that ‘Who Fishes Matters’.
A diverse fleet is essential for healthy oceans.: Photo by Niaz Dorry Together, we worked to ensure family based fishermen and fishing communities are fairly represented and protected in the new Catch Share regime. We are forging the path toward a shared Fleet Vision and now look to the challenges ahead. The vote also marks the beginning of a much more difficult and perhaps protracted battle: How do you define Fleet Diversity? And how do you achieve fleet diversity? Based on the Fleet Vision Project, which has a clear vision statement on Fleet Diversity, and evidence from other Catch Share programs the measures we feel will ensure the diversity of the fleet include: fishing quota set-asides that invest in fishing communities, leasing policies that foster an affordable fishery, owner-operator incentives, opportunities for new and/or younger fishermen to enter the fishery, and accumulation limits.
Each of these measures tackles a different aspect of a diverse fleet and ultimately will ensure an ecologically viable and sustainable ecosystem supporting an economically and socially just fishery. However no single measure in and of itself will work to ensure a diverse fleet.
Cape Cod Hook Fishermens CSFAllocation caps are a proven means to prevent the kinds of consolidation that are a hallmark of Catch Share programs, the most egregious example being the Mid Atlantic Ocean Quahog/Surf Clam fishery where uncontrolled consolidation resulted in around 90% of all permits being owned by two banks. Quota owners were effectively able to control how, when and how much fish was brought to shore and the price paid to the fishermen. This was also the case in some of the Alaska crab fisheries. Allocation caps simply prevent one person, corporation, or entity from gaining unfair leverage over markets, pricing, and the political process. Policies addressing leasing of fishing rights should foster an affordable fishery not one where leasing leads to consolidation of the fishing fleet and aggregation of fishing rights by a few fiscally-powerful players. Leasing restrictions existed under the previous management system called Days at Sea, which effectively controlled the flow of leasing between classes of boat sizes. For example, a 90ft. boat could not lease from a 40ft boat. Currently there is no such leasing policy under Catch Share management. Such policies can help protect a diverse fleet as well as maintain the cost of leasing at an affordable rate. The key is to design such policies with an eye toward preventing gross consolidation and concentration of fishing power while at the same time allowing enough flexibility for fishermen to trade fishing quota as necessary, and enter and leave the fishery without devaluing their permits.
- Fishing quota set asides can be used for any number of purposes:
- Ensuring younger fishermen have an opportunity to enter the fishery.
- Enabling Owner/operators, crew and captains to maintain reliability and dedication to stewardship and safe fishing standards while providing security.
- Quota set aside for adaptive management to enable adjustments to new scientific information and thereby helps achieve ecosystem goals.
- Conservation set-asides to reward ecologically sound fishing practices with additional quota (not to exceed accumulation limits).
- Research set-asides, which are already options in the New England management system should remain so.
Lastly, owner-operator incentives are a way to ensure that fishermen are the primary holders of permits as opposed to banks, financial speculators and absentee quota holders. Other Catch Share programs with no owner-operator incentives resulted in a “tenant” fishery, where the majority of permit owners lease their rights to fish and the majority of fishermen on the ocean rent their rights to fish. Experience tells us that a sea-tenant fishery undermines community values and ocean stewardship.
The above measures are just a few and we are actively working with and learning from communities who have adopted similar or additional measures to ensure fleet diversity. None of these measures in and of themselves will prevent excessive fleet consolidation. In fact, in many Catch Share programs where only one or a couple measures are put in place industrial fishing operations have been able to sidestep the restrictions. In the worst-case scenario, such as the Ocean Quahog/Surf Clam, fishery managers are now trying to retrospectively clean up the mess. We can learn from others’ mistakes.Here in New England the NEFMC has the opportunity to be proactive, ensure we don’t head down the same road as the Ocean Quahog/Surf Clam, and their recent vote was an important step forward to secure a just and sustainable fishery, but much work remains. We’ll be looking for more testimonies, video or in-person, to support maintaining and preserving a diverse fleet and moving towards a shared fleet vision.
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Who Fishes Matters - Preserving the health of the oceans, fishing communities and our food system.
If we care about the health of our oceans, fishing communities, and our food system, then who fishes matters.
BG Brown Gloucester, MA FishermanBut fisheries policies and regulations don’t reflect this and we’re working to change that.In New England, the groundfish fishery is transitioning into a new ‘Catch Share’ management system, with its promises to improve ecological stewardship of our oceans. However, we know that uncontrolled ‘Catch Share’ programs haven’t taken into account who actually fishes for our seafood. Instead, around the world Catch Shares have consolidated the fishing industry into monolithic, industrial scale, absentee owner fishing fleets. We believe this direction undermines communities, ecosystems, and our food system.
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All The King's Horses And All The King's Men
By Boyce Thorne Miller, NAMA's Science and Policy Coordinator
For NAMA Newsletter, June 15, 2010
Make no mistake; the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is broken, perhaps beyond repair – certainly beyond our ability to repair it. If somehow the shattered pieces come back together again, it’s pretty certain it won’t look or function like it did before the spill. Many who don’t live along the Gulf coast will probably have forgotten what that was like anyway. But those Louisianans, Arkansans, Mississippians, Alabamans, and Floridians, Texans (and perhaps others) whose health, livelihoods, and happiness are destroyed by this event will not soon forget. Can we help our fellow fishing communities? Can we prevent similar disasters from happening in the future – there and here?
A vision for the future, along with a clear vision of the past might help.
It’s almost impossible for us to comprehend what is happening in the Gulf. Even those who live there must rely on television and the internet to expose the shear magnitude – the depth, breadth, and non-stop gush of oil, the windrows of petrol-gunk, the struggling and dead birds, and models that depict the drift of underwater plumes. But while the images are ephemeral, the oil is not. We may never know the full scope of damage nor ever see what’s happening to the diversity of life beneath the sea-surface. In this, as in so many of our overachievements, man is powerless to stop what he has wrought.
Image courtesy of the EPATo add insult to injury, the government and BP insist on presenting us with information like how much of the Gulf is still open to fishing, how many boats and booms have been deployed, how fishermen are earning money as BP hires them for response efforts (not mentioned, at the expense of their health). We should not tolerate such spin put on such a grave situation.
Does memory already fail us? The history of ecological trauma in the Gulf of Mexico does not begin with this oil spill. There was already a large lifeless hypoxic area (deprived of oxygen) fanning out seasonally in bottom waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River. One can only wonder what synergism may be occurring between that and the oil drifting shoreward. And many years of daily inundation of petrochemical tainted tides, rain and air have taken major tolls on bayous and other wetlands -- the result of emissions from a variety of oil-based industries on the Gulf. More than half the Gulf’s productive wetlands were already lost to draining, dredging, logging and development, and now this oil. Do we have any idea what the Gulf and its ecosystems were like long ago when they were truly healthy and diverse? Some historians and natural historians do, and it’s something to strive to recover. We must hold on to our history if we are ever to know how to envision our future.
How easily we adjust to the slippery slope of ecological decline. It’s all around us and we simply adapt. But before we adapt we should learn to anticipate and avoid.
There isn’t a contingency plan on earth that can recover more than about 10 percent of an oil spill. And if it includes dispersants, the recovery rate is even lower. So it’s time to stop blaming over the failure of an appropriate response and start complaining about the failure of prevention!We should ask our legislators, regulators, fisheries managers and the like to work with citizens to develop a clear vision of what we want our communities, our land and our seas to look like in the future and to find fair and effective ways to get there using the best knowledge-base available. If we demand that, however, we must also take on the responsibility of adjusting our own personal lifestyles to help make it happen. Yes, the government has to change the way it operates; but we have to change the way we live in order to preserve or achieve the diversity of life and thriving communities we value. That may be the hardest part of all.
Behavior change doesn’t end with energy conservation and reduced oil consumption, which is a big enough job. We also must reevaluate our use of manufactured chemicals, how we farm, how we build cities, and how we use the ocean. Fishermen, who rely on healthy fish populations, understand the consequences all too well, for the ocean receives the outfall of all bad environmental decisions. If we needed proof that humans are part of the marine ecosystem as well as the land, the Deepwater Horizon has provided it. We must realize we can’t put complex things like the Gulf of Mexico ecosystems back together again, even with the help of all the king’s horses and all the king’s men. We have to prevent them from breaking in the first place.
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Nostalgia for a Better Future
By Sean Sullivan, NAMA's Development, Marketing and Outreach Associate
For NAMA Newsletter, June 15, 2010
It could have been that magic moment when a sea worm on a hook lowered into the sea results in a shiny wondrous living fish flopping around on the dock. Or it could have been a deep affection for the proud nosed workboats that cluttered the harbor in my youth, each telling a story by their wear and tear and the condition of their paint. It could have been one of those moments or a collection of a thousand fleeting glances at the ocean, a seemingly involuntary need to see it each day and register its temper.
I still don’t know how or why the ocean gets into one’s blood, but I do know when it gets there it stays there. During my college years, living in Portland, OR, a true deepwater port but 100 miles from the ocean proper, a constant longing for the intimate shores of the New England coast dwelled within me. It pained my mother to hear that I missed the ocean more than her cooking.
Like many who live and work with or near the ocean, I tend to think of the ocean as a living thing, which sounds obvious to say, but I mean it, as the young are wont to say, as my BFF, or Best Friend Forever.
Old Marblehead: Image courtesy of NOAAGrowing up fishing the shores of Salem Sound I saw the end of the Russian factory ships that hovered outside Gloucester Harbor scooping up anything and everything from the ocean. I saw Cod disappear and now take pleasure in their return to numbers. I never even knew what a wonderful fish the Striped Bass was as a child, and now they are back in their place in the ecosystem.
I have also watched as year after year the number of fishing boats in my homeport of Marblehead dwindled. Like their prey under the waters their numbers have ebbed as fish became scarce and regulations became plentiful. Along with the dwindling fleet comes a more subtle yet pernicious loss to the culture of the town, the loss of a connection to our surroundings that not only is part of our history, but should be part of our present and future. And, for me, most troubling is that the local market, not 200 yards from the fish pier, sells cod and haddock from Iceland.
NAMA likes to ask the question, “If we truly care about the health of our oceans does it matter how, where and when we fish; and, who catches the fish that end up on our dinner plates?” Of course we believe the answer is a resounding yes. It is one of those questions that are just beyond rhetorical, as most people will answer, “yes”. It is really the consequences of answering “yes” that is the purpose of the question.
Once you admit you care, don’t you have to do something about it? If you answer the question “Yes” do you still buy the cod and haddock from Iceland that is at least a week old – and even worse, its not any cheaper than you could get locally caught much more fresh fish? If you answer, “Yes” don’t you have to value a fresh local product more than a lower quality imported one?
Despite the problems, there is a sea change happening. People who care about their food are starting to include seafood in the discussion. Cod stocks are rebounding in many of the inshore areas that our local day-boat fishermen can find them. In fact, fishermen are more concerned now about catching their quota too quickly than about any lack of fish. Also, in what seems like an obvious step, regulators are now no longer requiring fishermen to throw their “by-catch” overboard. Fishermen are happy about this. They never wanted to kill anything from the ocean they could not land.
CSF’s are showing that people care about seafood. CSF members literally gush about how good fresh locally caught fish is, and revel in their experiences eating fish that are almost impossible to find at the local markets (even the best fishmongers are not carrying Redfish, a local stock well rebuilt, great for grilling, excellent tasty white flesh).
All of these things are positive steps but there is still a lot of work to be done. Concerned locavores (those who prefer their foods to be locally grown) are asking the hard questions about sustainability and gear types, things most consumers would not think of asking even a few years ago. The answers are not black and white (or the only slightly less oversimplified red, yellow and green). The answers are far more subtle and nuanced. Finding ways to get this message out will take time and co-operation from fishermen, shore-side workers and consumers.
For example, yes, some Atlantic Cod stocks are still in deep trouble, however our local Western Gulf of Maine stocks are expected to be listed as fully rebuilt in the coming years. Yes trawl gear can harm the ocean floor, but does that necessarily make trawl fishing a bad gear type? Again the answer requires developing an understanding of how fishermen have modified their gear to not only limit by-catch and reduce damage to the ocean bottom, but to effectively catch a targeted species quickly resulting in higher quality.
The latest bogeyman for fishermen are new rules that aim to reduce the fleet even further, and are likely to end up consolidating the fleet. If that doesn’t sound too bad, think what has happened to our family farms. Do you really want multi-national corporations being the stewards of our local seafood?
As people learn more, hopefully they will see that just outside our doors is one of the most precious resources in the world: a source of healthy, wild food. (You know how many people in the world would kill to be able to say that?) And maybe, because they care about their food, and they care about their communities they will start demanding that the local store buy fish from local dealers, that the town’s maintain the infrastructure that allows a day boat fishermen to land his catch in Marblehead. And maybe again someday the harbors will be filled with freshly painted colorful fishing boats, their noses pointing into the wind proudly and defiantly announcing that we are a people that are part of our environment.
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No Consolidation Without Vision - Take Action Now
If we truly care about our oceans and our fisheries, then “WHO” fishes matters! The New England Fisheries Management Council has made clear that fleet reduction is a priority in order to reduce total catch. However, a Council vision for who stays and who goes is absent. We learned from the experience of US farm policy that consolidation without a vision resulted in large-scale factory farming corporations driving out family farmers and degrading the land based environment, biodiversity, and security of the food system in this country. As it did this, it also destroyed the fabric and vitality of farming communities in the heartland.
Consolidation without a vision could result in a small fleet of homogenous large-scale boats that fish from only a few ports and use a narrow range of gear types, scale and sizes. We know fisheries around world that have consolidated without a vision didn’t achieve the ecological outcomes promised during the process.
The Council needs a vision that reflects what we have learned to date so we do not repeat the same mistakes again.
The New England community has a Vision for “Who” should fish. Over a two-year visioning process, a diverse group of commercial and recreational fishermen from all geographical areas, boat sizes, and gear types came together with scientists, fisheries advocates, community members and shore-side businesses to create a long-term vision for the fleet. One of the participating fishermen said the Fleet Vision Project was as comprehensive and detailed an effort as New England had ever seen. The Vision for a diverse fleet states:
“A geographically distributed commercial and recreational fleet that includes all gear types and boat sizes. Clearly the community values and understands the need for many different boat sizes and gear types that provide diverse products to markets. The community strongly dislikes the possibility of a fleet that is consolidated either by ownership or geography, and participants in this project advocate many jobs and coastal community welfare over economic efficiency.”
Tell Council that you support the Fleet Vision Project that calls for a diverse fleet by taking the PLEDGE. NAMA along with a team of fishermen and non-fishermen will be carrying your message to the Council this June 23. We need your support!
-Brett Tolley
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No Consolidation Without Vision - Take Action Now!
by Brett Tolley - NAMA's Community OrganizerFor June 15, 2010 NAMA Newsletter
If we truly care about our oceans and our fisheries, then "WHO" fishes matters! The New England Fisheries Management Council has made clear that fleet reduction is a priority in order to reduce total catch. However, a Council vision for who staysand who goes is absent. We learned from the experience of US farm policy that consolidation without a vision resulted in large-scale factory farming corporations driving out family farmers and degrading the land based environment, biodiversity, and security of the food system in this country. As it did this, it also destroyed the fabric and vitality of farming communities in the heartland.
Consolidation without a vision could result in a small fleet of homogeneous large-scale boats that fish from only a few ports and use a narrow range of gear types, scale and sizes. We know fisheries around world that have consolidated without a vision didn't achieve the ecological outcomes promised during the process.
The Council needs a vision that reflects what we have learned to date so we do not repeat the same mistakes again.
The New England community has a Vision for "Who" should fish. Over a two-year visioning process, a diverse group of commercial and recreational fishermen from all geographical areas, boat sizes, and gear types came together with scientists, fisheries advocates, community members and shore-side businesses to create a long-term vision for the fleet. One of the participating fishermen said the Fleet Vision Project was as comprehensive and detailed an effort as New England had ever seen. The Vision for a diverse fleet states:
"A geographically distributed commercial and recreational fleet that includes all gear types and boat sizes. Clearly the community values and understands the need for many different boat sizes and gear types that provide diverse products to markets. The community strongly dislikes the possibility of a fleet that is consolidated either by ownership or geography, and participants in this project advocate many jobs and coastal community welfare over economic efficiency."
Tell Council that you support the Fleet Vision Project that calls for a diverse fleet by taking the PLEDGE.
NAMA along with a team of fishermen and non-fishermen will be carrying
your message to the Council this June 23. We need your support! -
CAFC is at halfway rock and looking beyond . . . read the latest newsletter
From the conception of CAFC, where even the most optimistic hoped for 100 members, to the sometimes overwhelming yet insanely gratifying reality that well over 1000 people have joined this noble experiment, it has been a wild ride. And truly the biggest thanks goes to you the CAFC shareholders. Without your support, forbearance and enthusiasm none of this could have happened and all of us at CAFC want to make sure you know just how gratifying it is to be partners with all of you that has exceeded all of our wildest hopes. Not everything has gone perfectly. But rest assured we are listening.
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Community-Supported Fishery Launched in Gloucester, MA
Photo courtesy of Chris GarrityFrom the conception of CAFC, where even the most optimistic hoped for 100 members, to the sometimes overwhelming yet insanely gratifying reality that well over 1000 people have joined this noble experiment, it has been a wild ride. And truly the biggest thanks goes to you the CAFC shareholders. Without your support, forbearance and enthusiasm none of this could have happened and all of us at CAFC want to make sure you know just how gratifying it is to be partners with all of you that has exceeded all of our wildest hopes. Not everything has gone perfectly. But rest assured we are listening.
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Eat Local Seafood - 2008 Summer Newsletter
Eat Local Seafood; What is a Community Supported Fishery; Upcoming Sharing the Ocean book signing; Meet the Staff; and, What ever happened to Clean Catch?
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2007 Winter Newsletter- 2
NAMA Parteners with Midcoast Shrimpers in Community Supported Fishery Program, Pendleton Bids Farewell in Letter to his Colleauges and Supporters, Legal Petition Against Midwater Trawling in Groundfish Closed Areas, "Sharing the Ocean" Nears Publication!
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2007 Summer Newsletter
Area management, Letter From Coordinating Director, Maine Legislature resolution, Spring Running, NAMA Round-up, How you can help
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2007 Winter Newsletter
Magnuson Reauthorized, Letter fro the Coordinating Director, Message from the Chairman of the Board, Area Management Coalition, Association of Family Farmers: Craig Pendleton named to Board of National Farmers Alliance- Strengthens Interest of Farmers and Fishermen
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2006 Winter Newsletter
NAMA Provides Humanitarian Relief to Mississippi Commercial Fishermen Impacted by Hurricane Katrina, Letter from Coordinating Director Craig Pendleton, Fleet Vision Project Holds Final Workshop, A Christmas Story- Sometimes Things Happen in Life that Really Make You Wonder, NAMA Awarded $65,000 from the Kendall Foundation, Snow and Allen Thank NAMA for it's Bold Leadership over the Past Decade
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2006 Summer Newsletter
NAMA Awarded Grant to Write Book about the Northeast Fisheries Management Debate; Work will focus on the Power of Personal Narratives in Building a Consensus, Letter from NAMA Chairman Dana Morse, Ecosystem Mapping Project, NAMA's work in Midcoast Maine
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2006 Spring Newsletter
New Zealand: Quotas 20 Years Later, Letter from Coordinating Director Craig Pendleton, Enhancing the Shrimp Market, Mapping Fishing Communities, Curt Rice Joins NAMA Board, Chris Weiner Interns at NAMA
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2005 Winter Newsletter
NAMA Coordinates Tsunami Relief Fund, A letter from Coordinating Director Craig Pendleton, The Fleet Visioning Project - Setting the Stage: Planning, Scheduling, Making it Work, Liz Rettenmaier- Fleet Visioning Project Director, NAMA Teams with Leading Scientists to Harness Fishermen's Knowledge, Western Gulf of Maine Inshore-Fisheries Ecosystems Project, Snapshot: Ecosystem Based Management in the Gulf of Maine, New Grant from the Sudbury Foundation, Introduction to Jen Levin- Director of Operations
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2004 Summer Newsletter
Setting a Course for the Future, NAMA and Collaborative Research Featured on the News, COAA Ecosystem Based Management Project Description, Sea Scallops Re-born, Meet the Intern: Marissa Staples
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2003 Fall Newsletter
The Long Road: NAMA and Amendment 13
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2003 Spring Newsletter
Intern Andrew Hughes Joins NAMA for Map Project, Profile: Advisory Trustee and Cooperative Extension Director - Larry Yee, Outreach: NAMA Gives Students a Glimpse of Life at Sea, Board Votes to Elect New Trustee and Meet Quarterly
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