{"id":974,"date":"2010-03-26T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=974"},"modified":"2010-03-29T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:17:01","slug":"60-fishermen-23-edf-staff-89-meetings-lawmakers-hear-about-catch-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/03\/26\/60-fishermen-23-edf-staff-89-meetings-lawmakers-hear-about-catch-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Fishermen, 23 EDF Staff, 89 Meetings: Lawmakers Hear About Catch Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-911\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2010\/03\/Tom-Lalley-with-fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-911 \" title=\"Tom Lalley with fish\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2010\/03\/Tom-Lalley-with-fish-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"EDF Oceans Communications Director Tom Lalley holding a fish on a boat with Willy Phillips of NC\" width=\"210\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2010\/03\/Tom-Lalley-with-fish-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2010\/03\/Tom-Lalley-with-fish-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2010\/03\/Tom-Lalley-with-fish.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Lalley, EDF Oceans Communications Director and author of this blog post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A frenetic week in Washington, D.C. brought Congressional leaders together <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/03\/24\/fishermen-come-to-d-c-to-push-for-catch-share-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">with fishermen<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Early mornings, full days and late nights were the norm as fishermen spread the message that catch shares are important for their future.\u00a0 Funding for the national catch shares program is included in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.<\/p>\n<p>As fishermen face closures for the fisheries they depend on, they told lawmakers how catch shares avoid closures and allow fishing to continue even as stocks recover.\u00a0 Catch shares avoid the blow dealt by closures to communities and fishing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Many fishermen also zeroed in on the universal call for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/02\/25\/catch-shares-improves-both-science-and-catches\/\" target=\"_self\">better fisheries science<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Catch shares give you robust catch accounting and monitoring, whereas conventionally-managed fisheries often have few data with minimal monitoring coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- PHOTO --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2010\/03\/Tom-Lalley-with-fish-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"EDF Oceans Communications Director Tom Lalley holding a fish on a boat with Willy Phillips of NC\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- TEXT --><\/p>\n<p>A frenetic week in Washington, D.C. brought Congressional leaders together <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/03\/24\/fishermen-come-to-d-c-to-push-for-catch-share-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">with fishermen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Early mornings, full days and late nights were the norm as fishermen spread the message that catch shares are important for their future.  Funding for the national catch shares program is included in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/03\/26\/60-fishermen-23-edf-staff-89-meetings-lawmakers-hear-about-catch-shares\/\">Read full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[893,472,509],"coauthors":[5150],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-capitol-hill","tag-catch-shares","tag-fishing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>60 Fishermen, 23 EDF Staff, 89 Meetings: Lawmakers Hear About Catch Shares - 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\/2010\/03\/26\/60-fishermen-23-edf-staff-89-meetings-lawmakers-hear-about-catch-shares\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"60 Fishermen, 23 EDF Staff, 89 Meetings: Lawmakers Hear About Catch Shares - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A frenetic week in Washington, D.C. brought Congressional leaders together with fishermen.   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