PORTLAND, Maine — The amount of at-sea monitoring that New England’s cod fishermen will be required to submit to will be reduced in the coming fishing year, federal regulators have decided.
At-sea monitors are workers who collect data on fishing trips that helps inform fishing regulations. The government shifted the cost of paying for the monitors from itself to fishermen in the New England groundfishery earlier this year in a decision that riled the industry.
New England cod are in decline, and the industry argued that it can’t afford another cost on top of tight quotas.
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