On Thursday, January 23rd over 40 students from seven coastal Maine high schools-including 7 from DISHS- presented their application for an innovative supplemental fishery as part of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program. Students are collaborating with researchers from Penobscot East Resource Center and the Department of Marine Resources to engineer a trap-based winter flounder fishery. Since there is not currently a fishery in Maine for winter flounder, students in the program wrote and presented an application to the Department of Marine Resources Advisory Council to obtain a special license that will allow students to trap winter flounder. The Advisory Council unanimously voted to approve the students application for a special license. Before voting, council members asked questions of the presenting students and expressed their support for the program. Council member Christopher Weiner, a fisherman from Portland, said this [program] is the coolest thing…usually I am the youngest person in the room at these meetings. Patrick Keliher, Commissioner of the Department of Marine Resources, noted that the Eastern Maine Skippers Program is a testament to schools that are recognizing the value of fishing to Maines communities and economy.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:49:58 +0000
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