{"id":3589,"date":"2012-05-23T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2012-06-11T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:32:36","slug":"environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Commercial Fisherman Frank Mirarchi of Scituate & Emilie Litsinger, groundfish project manager of EDF. Photo by Don Cuddy <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The transition of the New England groundfish fishery to sector management has been a major cultural and economic shift for the fishery. Emilie Litsinger, our Groundfish Project manager, was featured in a recent story illuminating some of the relationships we have formed with fishermen to assist their transition to the new system by providing business tools and planning. “We care about the fish but we also care about the fishermen,” she said to South Coast Today. “We want them to succeed so we hired business consultants to look at the problems facing fishermen like Frank and to help them, not only with prices, but also to develop new marketing initiatives.” Our partnerships with fishermen go beyond achieving sustainable fisheries; we want them to have successful businesses as well.\u00a0Read the full story here.<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

The transition of the New England groundfish fishery to sector management has been a major cultural and economic shift for the fishery. Emilie Litsinger, our Groundfish Project manager, was featured in a recent story illuminating some of the relationships we have formed with fishermen to assist their transition to the new system by providing business tools and planning. “We care about the fish but we also care about the fishermen,” she said to South Coast Today. <\/p>\n

Read the full post »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[472,36776],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","tag-catch-shares","tag-ne-groundfish"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWorking with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The transition of the New England groundfish fishery to sector management has been a major cultural and economic shift for the fishery. Emilie Litsinger, our Groundfish Project manager, was featured in a recent story illuminating some of the relationships we have formed with fishermen to assist their transition to the new system by providing business tools and planning. "We care about the fish but we also care about the fishermen," she said to South Coast Today. Read the full post »\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-23T14:40:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-06-11T19:32:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2012\/05\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"EDF Oceans\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"EDF Oceans\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"EDF Oceans\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/31a1e71336edfeb78bf40a32e6cd715d\"},\"headline\":\"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-23T14:40:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-06-11T19:32:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":167,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/18\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Catch Shares\",\"NE Groundfish\"],\"articleSection\":[\"New England\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/\",\"name\":\"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses - EDFish\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/18\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-23T14:40:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-06-11T19:32:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/31a1e71336edfeb78bf40a32e6cd715d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/18\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/18\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/23\\\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/\",\"name\":\"EDFish\",\"description\":\"Innovating for healthy oceans\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/31a1e71336edfeb78bf40a32e6cd715d\",\"name\":\"EDF Oceans\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.edf.org\\\/edfish\\\/author\\\/edfoceans\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses - EDFish","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses - EDFish","og_description":"The transition of the New England groundfish fishery to sector management has been a major cultural and economic shift for the fishery. Emilie Litsinger, our Groundfish Project manager, was featured in a recent story illuminating some of the relationships we have formed with fishermen to assist their transition to the new system by providing business tools and planning. \"We care about the fish but we also care about the fishermen,\" she said to South Coast Today. Read the full post »","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/","og_site_name":"EDFish","article_published_time":"2012-05-23T14:40:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-06-11T19:32:36+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2012\/05\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"EDF Oceans","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"EDF Oceans","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/"},"author":{"name":"EDF Oceans","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/#\/schema\/person\/31a1e71336edfeb78bf40a32e6cd715d"},"headline":"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses","datePublished":"2012-05-23T14:40:54+00:00","dateModified":"2012-06-11T19:32:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/"},"wordCount":167,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2012\/05\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg","keywords":["Catch Shares","NE Groundfish"],"articleSection":["New England"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/","name":"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses - EDFish","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2012\/05\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg","datePublished":"2012-05-23T14:40:54+00:00","dateModified":"2012-06-11T19:32:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/#\/schema\/person\/31a1e71336edfeb78bf40a32e6cd715d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2012\/05\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2012\/05\/Emilie-and-Frank-Mirarchi.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/05\/23\/environmental-group-shares-business-acumen-to-help-independent-fisherman-survive\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Working with Fishermen to Improve their Fishing Businesses"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/","name":"EDFish","description":"Innovating for healthy oceans","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/#\/schema\/person\/31a1e71336edfeb78bf40a32e6cd715d","name":"EDF Oceans","url":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/author\/edfoceans\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}