Massachusetts Comment Letter

Community Sign-On Letters
Written By Sarah Ettinger

Fishing Communities Taking Action

In September 2024, Massachusetts fishermen and fisheries associations asked the Massachusetts Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience to:

  • Meaningfully engage with the Massachusetts fishing and seafood community in the context of the CCAP, using the same climate justice-informed values that they would use when engaging with any other frontline and fenceline community in Massachusetts.

  • Consider impacts to ocean ecosystems, fishing activities, and fishing dependent communities within their analysis of co-benefits and disbenefits associated with GHG reduction measures considered in the CCAP, and use this analysis to prioritize the plan’s reliance on measures that are “fishery friendly”

Read the full letter here and watch for future updates as fishing communities continue to promote fishery friendly climate action in state CCAP processes.

Sarah Ettinger https://www.sarahettinger.com/
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