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<div align="center"><dd><font face="Verdana"><b>UNH Symposium Focuses
on Goals and Results
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<dd><font face="Verdana"><b>of the Closure of the Western Gulf of
Maine to Fishing<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana">Durham, N.H. The New England Fisheries
Management Council
(NEFMC) sought to protect spawning and nursery areas and other key
habitats and reduce the bycatch of overfished and threatened stocks
when
it closed the western Gulf of Maine to fishing in 1998.<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana">Fishermen, scientists, resource managers and
others with an interest
in this management strategy will gather at UNH on March 26 to review
the
purpose of the closure and to examine the progress that has been made
toward its goals.<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana">The symposium will feature two keynote
speakers who have been
intimately involved with the closure, Paul Howard, executive director
of
NEFMC, and Mike Fogarty, a fisheries biologist with the NOAA Northeast
Fisheries Science Center.<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana">For more information on the event, go to
</font><a href="http://www.seagrant.unh.edu/GOMclosure.html"
eudora="autourl"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff"><u>http://www.seagrant.unh.edu/GOMclosure.html</u></font></a><font
face="Verdana">
or contact Ken LaValley
(</font><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff"><u><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ken.lavalley@unh.edu">ken.lavalley@unh.edu</a></u></font><font
face="Verdana">),
a NH Sea Grant fisheries specialist who’s helping to organize the
event.</font>
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