The House will now take up the resolution, with a hearing set for 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Special Committee on Fisheries.
The task force would address the "economic crisis" now facing the state's seafood industry.
Fishermen are facing hardship, the resolution says, noting that "numerous seafood processing facilities are for sale, closing or planning to shut down for a portion, or all of, the 2024 fishing season."
As currently written, the resolution calls for a task force of 16 members including legislators, commercial seafood harvesters, processors, coastal community representatives and others.
Another? Will this one be like the 2002 task force?
ReplyDeleteSee Grunert v. State (2005) and State Board of Fisheries v. Grunert (2006).
That big, confusing word "No" in Article VIII, Section 15 surely confused the last fisheries task force, and a few fishermen lost in that co-op's fog of directors.