ECONOMY – The Baker-Polito Administration’s Seaport Economic Council has announced $5.15 million in grant awards to Gloucester, Nahant, Dartmouth, Harwich, Hingham, New Bedford, Plymouth, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to support infrastructure improvements that focus on long-term resilience, planning efforts that aim to unlock significant economic growth potential, and research that could make clean energy more affordable for coastal communities.
Gloucester’s grant of $151,000 is focused on sustaining and improving the 40 percent of the city’s economy that relies on fishing, processing, shore-side services, and related businesses. It will allow the city to exhibit its seafood locally, regionally and nationally, and will support a branding campaign for “Gloucester Fresh Seafood.”
Funding will also help the Fishermen’s Wives Association to procure additional contracts for Gloucester’s seafood with restaurants and institutions.
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