Blue Water Fishermen's Assn has represented North Atlantic pelagic longliners for 25 years
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] - August 25, 2014 -
Blue Water Fishermen's Association (BWFA) is a trade organization representing domestic fishing and associated businesses that are involved in the harvest and sale of highly migratory species -- primarily swordfish, tuna and sharks -- from U.S. and international Northern Atlantic waters.
The Association is coming up on its 25th anniversary and a large part of why its members are still in business is that from the very beginning in the late 1980s they have individually and collectively committed to a sustainable fishery with minimal impacts on the ocean environment.
The conservation-related efforts of BWFA were given official recognition in 2007 through a posthumous award by NOAA to Nelson Beideman, one of the organization's founders and its second Executive Director. He was an active fisheries management partner who was instrumental in efforts to reduce domestic and international bycatch of sea turtles, and develop domestic and international management programs that led to the rebuilding of north Atlantic swordfish." Terri Beideman currently serves as BWFA executive director.
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