[SEMCO] Open Forum with author Paul Greenberg

[Cathrine Macort]

*Open Forum with author Paul Greenberg, author of American Catch: The Fight
for Our Local Seafood.*
*September 13, 2014 6:00 – 9:00 pm*
Provincetown Town Hall
260 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
Tickets are free at the door, open seating
*For details, contact Meri Ratzel at (508) 246-5543*

*American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood* (Penguin Press, June,
2014) is Paul Greenberg’s new book that explores why the United States, the
country that controls more ocean than any nation on earth imports 90
percent of its seafood from abroad.

Using Paul Greenberg's book as an organizing theme, local panelists have
assembled to create an open forum that aims to reintroduce American seafood
to American consumers, and how it relates specifically to our coastal
communities.

Panelists include:

*John Baldwin, Seafood Divers and Owen Nichols, Center for Coastal Studies*
are developing community-based approaches to sustainable shellfish
aquaculture – possibilities and restrictions. John will relate decades long
history of producing sea clams “butter clams” in Provincetown waters, and
Owen will be presenting information on attempts to introduce sub-tidal
aquaculture off our coast. (open question: Can we grow and market our own
food locally? What are the possibilities?)

*Sarah Schumann *will share her experiences with Eating with the Ecosystem
, an educational effort to design and promote  place-based approaches to
sustainable seafood for New England.

*Dan McCorkle, Chair, Geology, WHOI* has been studying the combined impacts
of ocean acidification and food supply on growth cycles of sea scallops.
 Much of his work is focused on laboratory studies of the effects of
increased seawater acidity on larval shellfish.

*Amy Maas, PhD, WHOI* has been studying pterpopods off the coast of
Provincetown. Pterpodods, small snail like animals are here in our waters
throughout the year and sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry. She is
looking at the pteropod, the “sea butterfly” as a potential “canary in the
coal mine,” a bioindicator that alerts us to shifts and changes  in
seawater. Her work addresses the hypothesis that global change is having
important effects on the physiological function and geographic distribution
of important marine animal species.

*Dan Maggio, Assistant Harbormaster, Provincetown, *and graduate student in
Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. Dan will be sharing
information on his project studying the recreational uses of Provincetown
Harbor and attitudes towards shellfish aquaculture.

*About Paul Greenberg*
www.paulgreenberg.org
Twitter @4fishgreenberg.
https://www.facebook.com/fourfish

Paul Greenberg’s work examines the forces that get fish to our dinner
tables. He advocates for food policies that balance the demand for wild
fish with healthy marine ecosystems that include economically viable
coastal communities. His book *American Catch* uncovers the tragic
unraveling of the nation’s seafood supply—telling the surprising story of
why Americans stopped eating from their own waters.

Contributors to this open forum include Paul Greenberg, Meri Ratzel of Fish
Locally Collaborative (http://namanet.org/fish-locally-collaborative),
assembled panelists and town sponsorship through the Provincetown
Fishermen’s Memorial Project.
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