PORTLAND (AP) — Fishery regulators are expected to make decisions about habitat protections to key federal fishing grounds.
The New England Fishery Management Council is discussing the protections today. The council voted in April to keep protections to Cashes Ledge in the Gulf of Maine when it approved pieces of a long-awaited habitat plan.
One of the issues still on the table is how to handle habitat protection in Georges Bank off of Massachusetts. Another is the protection of spawning areas in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. The changes impact the way fishermen catch important species including cod, clams and scallops in federal waters from Maine to Rhode Island.
The council is meeting this week in Newport, Rhode Island, from today through Thursday.
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