Since the 1990s, New Bedford has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in reducing overflows, and upgrading its combined sewer system, city Department of Public Infrastructure Commissioner Jamie Ponte said.
Category: Fishing industry
South Coast oyster growers say sewage-related restrictions will hurt
South Coast shellfish operations could be shut down for seven to 21 days after episodes of “rainfall or seasonally poor water quality or other predictable events.”
Fishery council considering Mitchell’s plea to open Northern Edge to scallopers
The New Bedford mayor cited challenging years ahead for the scallop industry, which is being strained by a slump in prices and fewer days at sea for fishermen; and he stressed the importance of the scallop fishery as a foundational part of the port’s economy.
An ocean of ambition
Cassie Canastra embarks on a multimillion-dollar quest to rebuild New Bedford’s groundfishing industry.
True North Seafood to shut down city plant
“It’s never good news when a company like this shuts down, especially for the workers.” — Gordon Carr, executive director of the New Bedford Port Authority
Opinion: In memoriam of Blue Harvest — private equity giveth, and it taketh away
Private equity looks for companies in their strike zone that fit a certain profile, and in this case Blue Harvest was it.
Scallop wallop
Japanese imports are taking a bite out of New Bedford’s lucrative seafood industry at a time when the region’s shellfish are in shorter supply.
Offshore wind compensation programs open for Mass. fishermen
Because the projects and funds are independent of (and different from) one another, fishermen must apply separately to be eligible for each program.
State shutting down many South Coast shellfish beds due to sewage
More than 18,000 acres of the Dartmouth, Fairhaven and New Bedford coastline, including quahogging areas off the outer New Bedford Harbor, will be reclassified from being conditionally approved shellfishing areas to prohibited.
NOAA links rope entangling dead right whale to Maine fishery
The young whale was first reported with rope around her tail in 2022 in Canada, when she was only a year old and not yet fully grown. She was sighted again entangled in Cape Cod Bay in 2023.