NE Fisheries Council Defers Action on Georges Bank Habitat Issues to June
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Gloucester Daily Times] By Sean Horgan - April 27, 2015 -
The New England Fishery Management Council convened last week in Mystic, Conn., with the goal of finally, after 10 years of work, approving the voluminous revised fishery habitat protections for the region's ocean waters.
By the time the weary council members adjourned late in the week, the task was largely completed, but not without the requisite political maneuvering and exclamations of dissatisfaction that seem to define the process for developing fishery management plans.
Regarding Georges Bank habitat issues, important to the sea scallop industry, the council asked NOAA for an evaluation and pushed and decision off to its June meeting in Newport, R.I.
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