The state fishery directors from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York, in partnership with NOAA, yesterday announced a proposed framework for the distribution of $32.8 million in federal disaster monies to the New England groundfish industry. These funds are a portion of the $75 million allocated by U.S. Congress as part of its Fiscal 2014 budget to help with six declared fishery disasters. In 2012, the Secretary of Commerce declared one of these fishery disasters to be the result of significant quota cuts anticipated for key New England groundfish...
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