New England Shrimp Fishery Likely to Have New Rules – If it Reopens
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Associated Press] BY PATRICK WHITTLE - September 8, 2017
Regulators could decide in November whether to allow the first shrimp season since 2013.
With the prospect of New England’s shrimp fishery reopening this winter, new rules are being designed to perpetuate the species’ numbers and prevent another shutdown.
Maine fishermen once caught millions of pounds of the shrimp every year, with fishermen also bringing some ashore in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. But as the Gulf of Maine waters warmed, the catch plummeted from more than 13 million pounds in 2010 to less than 700,000 in 2013. The fishery shut ...
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