Page updated on 09/26/07
 

Area Management
An Approach for Many Fisheries
 

    
     Area management could be a source of hope for fishermen- something that might be a key to rebuilding diversity into our fisheries and businesses. Area management builds on fishermen’s understanding of the way a piece of bottom works, and the interrelationship among fisheries. It includes local control and local responsibility, stewardship, good conversation rules that are based on the ecology of an area and give access for fishermen who live there. A coalition has formed around area management for Groundfish in Amendment 16. At this session attendees talked with a number of people from the US and internationally who have worked with, or are working toward area management in many different fisheries.

     Host:  Kathleen Pezaris, Stonington Fisheries Alliance