{"id":2486,"date":"2013-05-23T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:30:22","slug":"fishing-industry-rallies-to-demand-aid-msa-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/fishing-industry-rallies-to-demand-aid-msa-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing industry rallies to demand aid, MSA flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>BOSTON, MA \u2013 About 300 people, including fishermen and their families from around New England, fish buyers, boat owners, and concerned citizens, attended the Groundfish Industry Rally held at the Boston Fish Pier on April 29.Organized by the Northeast Seafood Coalition (NSC), more than a dozen speakers urged Congress, consumers, and the National Marine Fisheries Service to support a new interim groundfish plan that would involve cuts to key species, but not as severe as those implemented just two days later on the May 1 start of the 2013 fishing year (see related story page 10).<a href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2487\" title=\"page-25-Boston-Rally\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-140x93.jpg 140w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-31x20.jpg 31w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-38x25.jpg 38w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-323x215.jpg 323w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-210x139.jpg 210w, https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-25-Boston-Rally-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><span><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 8px;\">Susan Pollack photo \u00a9 Commercial Fisheries News 2013<\/span><\/span><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Above, Sue Sanfilippo and daughters Leah and Nina showed their colors during the rally by wearing \u201cFishermen\u2019s Pride\u201d t-shirts made up two years ago when husband and father Gus Sanfilippo, right, was featured on the TV show \u201cExpedition Impossible.\u201d Sanfilippo is the owner-operator of the Gloucester-based Captain Dominic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Read the rest and much, much more in the June issue of Commercial Fisheries News. Read online immediately and download for future reference.<\/strong><\/em><strong><em> [add_to_cart=2464]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BOSTON, MA \u2013 About 300 people, including fishermen and their families from around New England, fish buyers, boat owners, and concerned citizens, attended the Groundfish Industry Rally held at the Boston Fish Pier on April 29.Organized by the Northeast Seafood Coalition (NSC), more than a dozen speakers urged Congress, consumers, and the National Marine Fisheries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/fishing-industry-rallies-to-demand-aid-msa-flexibility\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,14,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fish","category-06-2013","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}