[SEMCO] GOM Closure Symposium

[Sheri DeRosa]

    UNH Symposium Focuses on Goals and Results 
    of the Closure of the Western Gulf of Maine to Fishing

    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.

    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.

    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.

    For more information on the event, go to
    http://www.seagrant.unh.edu/GOMclosure.html or contact Ken LaValley
    (ken.lavalley at unh.edu), a NH Sea Grant fisheries specialist who's
    helping to organize the event. 

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