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  • National Ocean and Fisheries Policies: Trickle Up or Trickle Down
  • Food Justice: Bringing Seafood into the Local Food Movement
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  • Trickle Up or Trickle Down?

    National Ocean and Fisheries Policies: Trickle Up or Trickle Down?

    By Boyce Thorne MillerBy Boyce Thorne Miller"Fire! Aim! Ready!" A quote attributed to Gloucester fisherman Vito Giacalone in reference to fisheries management in New England, handily describes the processes to develop national policies and their regional implementation strategies -- "Fire! Aim! Ready!" Without a carefully selected target, 'ready' and 'aim' efforts are useless anyway, and we are left with firing at random with no guarantee that the intended targets will be reached. A chaotic battleground is hardly new for fisheries, but we would like to hope new policies and management under the Obama Administration can move away from that scene rather than perpetuate it.

  • Green Jobs on the Blue Ocean

    Saving the oceans doesn't have to lead to putting fishermen out of work. In fact, if we spend our resources, stimulus funds, and overall energy ensuring fisheries policies are community and ecosystem based, we can actually save the fish and create more jobs in coastal fishing communities.

  • "Green" Seafood?

    One's taste for seafood is often dictated by culture, geography, religion, tradition, income, and, of course, taste. Whatever your reason for wanting seafood, we at NAMA are not a big fan of declaring any specific seafood "green." Too often many factors that can help determine the "green-ness" of seafood are ignored in the attempt to make it easier for us to make purchasing decisions at the cost of the oceans and those who catch the seafood we eat.

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  • 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.

  • Community-Supported Fishery Launched in Gloucester, MA

    Photo courtesy of Chris GarrityPhoto courtesy of Chris Garrity

    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.

  • 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?

  • 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!

  • 2007 Summer Newsletter

    Area management, Letter From Coordinating Director, Maine Legislature resolution, Spring Running, NAMA Round-up, How you can help

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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