{"id":74,"date":"2009-06-11T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/06\/11\/canadian-fishermen-visit-new-england-counterparts\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:55:49","slug":"canadian-fishermen-visit-new-england-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/06\/11\/canadian-fishermen-visit-new-england-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Fishermen Visit New England Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love introducing fishermen to each other because they always have lots to talk about.\u00a0 Last week, EDF brought fishermen from British Columbia to six New England fishing communities.\u00a0 More than 100 fishermen from Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island attended the meetings, 35 people showed up in New Bedford,\u00a0MA alone.\u00a0 The BC fishermen also met with 30 fishery managers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meetings focused on how catch shares work in B.C.\u00a0 New England fishermen are intensely interested in what\u2019s going on in BC because the fisheries in New England are likely moving to catch shares in the near future.\u00a0Becky Evans from the New Bedford Standard Times wrote an excellent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090605\/NEWS\/906050344\">story<\/a> on the visits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EDF has been brining fishermen together for years.\u00a0 We\u2019ve arranged for fishermen to come to BC several times a year because we\u2019ve found that fishermen are the best spokespeople for better fishing management.\u00a0 In fact, EDF brought <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/05\/08\/belizean-fishermen-and-fishery-managers-visit-british-columbia-to-see-catch-shares-at-work\/\">fishermen from Belize<\/a> to BC earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love introducing fishermen to each other because they always have lots to talk about.\u00a0 Last week, EDF brought fishermen from British Columbia to six New England fishing communities.\u00a0 More than 100 fishermen from Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island attended the meetings, 35 people showed up in New Bedford,\u00a0MA alone.\u00a0 The BC fishermen also met &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[515,472,72530],"coauthors":[5170],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","tag-british-columbia","tag-catch-shares","tag-new-england"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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