[SEMCO] Fish Harvesting Cooperatives

[Sheri DeRosa]

Tools in the Fish Tote: 
Harvesting Cooperatives

December 17, 2004  9AM -5 PM
Urban Forestry Center, Portsmouth, NH

The Northeast Sea Grant Programs invite all interested to learn more 
about fish harvesting cooperatives and how they can work for fisheries 
in the Northeast.  Designed primarily by participants in the fishery, 
harvesting cooperatives are market based self-management tools that 
support fishing communities and promote improved economic and biological 
sustainability. 

The workshop will include guest speakers with experience in 
co-management and harvesting cooperatives: 

    Bob Pomeroy - CT Sea Grant Fisheries Extension Specialist,
    Sherman Hoyt - ME Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension Fisheries
    Specialist,
    Joe Sullivan - Seattle attorney, who has done the legal work to
    establish all of the harvesting cooperatives on the West Coast,
    Teressa Kandianis - co-owner of the Kodiak Fish Company, which
    operates boats in the Alaskan Weathervane scallop harvesting
    cooperative and in the North Pacific groundfish fishery.

The afternoon session will include the development of a model that 
fishing communities can use as a starting point for establishing their 
own cooperatives. Lunch will be provided.  Please RSVP to Barbara Somers 
(401) 874-2012 to reserve a seat.

Directions: From Interstate 95 Northbound/Southbound: take Exit #5 to 
the Portsmouth Traffic Circle. From the Circle, take Route 1 Bypass 
south. This will merge into Route 1 South.  Proceed about 2 miles thru a 
series of five lights. At the next set of lights you should be in the 
left turn only lane (Yoken's Restaurant will be on your right). Turn 
left onto Elwyn Road.  Take the first left turn (approximately 500 feet) 
into the Urban Forestry Center road to the parking lot.

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