Next Meeting!

Marine Spatial Planning and Commercial Fisheries

Wednesday May 16, 2012

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Lee Memorial Library

2 Academy Avenue, Hampton, NH

Objective: This roundtable will provide an opportunity for the fishing community and the public to provide feedback to help shape Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) projects. For example, NROC is working with exising data to help characterize spatial patterns of activity related to commercial fishing. This, and other aspects of the NROC work plan [http://collaborate.csc.noaa.gov/nroc/planning/work-plan/default.aspx] will be discussed at this Rountable.

Invited Speakers:

Steve Couture, NH Department of Environmental Sciences

George LaPointe, ME Department of Marine Resources

Matt Magnusson, University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Author of "Health of NH Seafood Harvesting Industry: Annual Report for 2010"

Josh Weirsma, Manager NH Groundfish Sectors XI and XII

For more information contact:
Erik Chapman, NH Sea Grant/UNH Cooperative Extension
603-862-1935, erik.chapman@unh.edu