Tag Archives: Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Reps. Michael Michaud and Chellie Pingree and New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter.
NOAA urged to subsidize monitors
NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard announced last month in advance of the December council meeting that NOAA did not have the budget for a third year of 100 percent subsidy of at-sea monitoring, a requirement on about one third of groundfish trips. Each trip that is monitored pays $300 to the contractor. Bullard’s office has said the cost of monitoring is about $6-7 million a year. Read more here
