Tag Archives: Angela Sanfilippo
New manual outlines steps for fishermen, communities to take in crisis
The concept first began to crystallize in Angela Sanfilippo’s mind about four years ago, when the president of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association realized she needed to start putting some things down on paper. Sanfilippo, both in her roles with fishing-based community groups and her own experience as a wife, daughter and sister of fishermen, had helped develop a series of protocols to help fishermen avoid calamities on the water and help the Gloucester fishing community deal with fishing tragedies when they occur. “I just thought that we should start putting these things in writing because we’re not going to be around forever,” Sanfilippo said. Thus was born the idea that burst into reality yesterday when the Fishing Partnership Support Services unveiled its RESCUES manual in an event at the U.S. Coast Guard’s Station Gloucester. Read the rest here 22:50
Letters signal preventative strike against NOAA fishing measures
NOAA Regional Administrator John K. Bullard has conceded the emergency measures, which will be announced around the middle of this month, likely will include quota cuts and area closures and will have a “disproportionate” negative impact on small-boat groundfish ports such as Gloucester and Portsmouth, N.H. Read the rest here 08:01
Angela Sanfilippo: ‘What Gloucester has done for me’
Angela Sanfilippo told her story Thursday afternoon and she told it well, the traces of her Italian heritage still dancing in her voice. It’s a pretty good story. An American story with all the familiar tinting of the immigrant experience. At its heart, it is a Gloucester story. Read the rest here 07:29
Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership is organizing a health-care forum next Thursday at 6 p.m. in Gloucester
Angela Sanfillipo – “Because we’re in the fishing community, and fishing affects everyone else in the community, the meeting is a public meeting for anyone who wants to come,” “Even if people are not in the industry and they need assistance, we’ll be happy to give it to them.” Health-care forum next Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library more@GDT 08:30
MSA Re-Auth Roadshow: Angela Sanfilippo — Magnuson reforms for a sustainable fishery
This is a portion of the testimony of Gloucester’s Angela Sanfilippo before members of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans Atmosphere and Coast Guard on Monday at the State House in Boston. Flexibility. Stability. Responsibility. Accountability. Regulators must take responsibility for their actions and not blame the fishermen when a mismanaged regulation causes destruction of the stock and the ocean environment. more@GDT
The Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization road show hit Boston on Monday – hears pleas for fishing reforms
“If folks in Washington are really looking for a path to help rebuild and sustain the fishery, they got the answers to that today,” said Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester. “The one message that came through loud and clear for everyone is the science is inadequate, and the decisions based on that science, by extension, are questionable.” more@GDT 07:20
GDT Editorial: A deserving ‘fishermen’s friend’ – Angela Sanfilippo “a tireless crusader”
Each year, the New Bedford-based Offshore Mariners’ Wives Association presents perhaps New England’s most prestigious award honoring those who have contributed to the fishing industry across the state and the region. And the list of past winners is exclusive, including the likes of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, now-retired Congressman Barney Frank, and yes; our own late Richard Gaines. more@GDT 07:37
Angela Sanfilippo, Decades Long Fishing Industry Crusader and Advocate Awarded Top Fishing Industry Honor
Angela Sanfilippo said she wasn’t expecting any awards Sunday when she traveled to New Bedford for that city’s Working Waterfront Festival. She was in for a surprise. Sanfilippo was standing next to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley aboard the state’s official vessel, the schooner Ernestina, when the announcement was made for this year’s recipients for the prestigious Offshore Mariners’ Wives Friend of the Fishing Industry Award. more@GDT 03:05
