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DMR-backed bill would expand emerging-fishery tool to pelagic license and create noncommercial northern shrimp license
Summary
The Department of Marine Resources told lawmakers it supports LD 1176, a bill to expand the state’s emerging-fishery authority to species harvested under the pelagic and anadromous license and to create a $20 noncommercial northern shrimp license for use if a shrimp season is reauthorized.
The Department of Marine Resources told the committee it supports LD 1176, a department-sponsored bill introduced in the legislature by Representative Holly Eaton that updates Maine’s “emerging fisheries” statute and creates a noncommercial northern shrimp license for future use if a shrimp season reopens.
DMR Director of State Marine Policy Deirdre Gilbert briefed the committee on the bill’s two main pieces. First, the bill would broaden the existing emerging-fishery tool (which today applies to species taken under the state commercial fishing license) so it can be used for species that are harvested under the…
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