{"id":4500,"date":"2013-02-11T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2013-02-11T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:56:09","slug":"edf-on-the-radio-the-california-fisheries-fund-helps-west-coast-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2013\/02\/11\/edf-on-the-radio-the-california-fisheries-fund-helps-west-coast-fishermen\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF on the Radio: The California Fisheries Fund Helps West Coast Fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"CFF Director, Phoebe Higgins with Steve Fitz, a loan recipient\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/PhoebeHigginsSteveFitz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4503\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/PhoebeHigginsSteveFitz-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/PhoebeHigginsSteveFitz-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/PhoebeHigginsSteveFitz.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CFF Director, Phoebe Higgins with Steve Fitz, a loan recipient<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/people\/phoebe-higgins\">Phoebe Higgins<\/a>, Director of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BuoiXiCvgsk\">California Fisheries Fund<\/a>, appeared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/Pheobe-Higgins-Interview-020513.mp3\">John Young KUIC Hometown Morning show<\/a> to discuss the productive work the fund is doing to help West Coast fishermen finance their transition to more sustainable fishing practices, improve the profitability of their fishing businesses and provide seafood consumers with the fresh and sustainably caught fish that they love.<\/p>\n<p>Phoebe also discussed with John a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/oceans\/catch-shares-policy-and-resources\">new sustainable management program<\/a> that is helping fishermen on the West Coast grow their fishing operations as well as allowing fish populations to rebound.\u00a0 The Fund coupled with the Pacific Groundfish catch share program, is helping to maintain and grow California\u2019s highly-valued ocean economy \u2014worth $43 billion and contributing more than 474,000 jobs to the state. Fishermen have more time to fish carefully which improves their safety and dramatically reduces the amount of bycatch and discarded fish. In turn, fishermen are able to bring in higher quality fish to seafood consumers and market their fish at higher prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/Pheobe-Higgins-Interview-020513.mp3\">Listen<\/a> to Phoebe discuss the California Fisheries Fund project and catch share programs on the show and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/oceans\/loan-program-gives-fisherman-sustainable-boost\">see <\/a>how one fisherman is benefitting from his loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/02\/PhoebeHigginsSteveFitz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Phoebe Higgins, Director of our California Fisheries Fund, appeared on the John Young KUIC Hometown Morning show to discuss the productive work the fund is doing to help West Coast fishermen finance their transition to more sustainable fishing practices, improve the profitability of their fishing businesses and provide seafood consumers with the fresh and sustainably caught fish that they love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2013\/02\/11\/edf-on-the-radio-the-california-fisheries-fund-helps-west-coast-fishermen\/\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,378],"tags":[5081,572,510,509,42642,42643,38,42644,413,639],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","category-seafood","tag-california-fisheries-fund","tag-fish","tag-fishermen","tag-fishing","tag-fund","tag-loans","tag-oceans","tag-phoebe-higgins","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-seafood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EDF on the Radio: The California Fisheries Fund Helps West Coast Fishermen - 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\/2013\/02\/11\/edf-on-the-radio-the-california-fisheries-fund-helps-west-coast-fishermen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EDF on the Radio: The California Fisheries Fund Helps West Coast Fishermen - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week, Phoebe Higgins, Director of our California Fisheries Fund, appeared on the John Young KUIC Hometown Morning show to discuss the productive work the fund is doing to help West Coast fishermen finance their transition to more sustainable fishing practices, improve the profitability of their fishing businesses and provide seafood consumers with the fresh and sustainably caught fish that they love.  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