A new center for the preservation and presentation of New Bedford’s fishing industry will open with MIT Sea Grant specialist as a founding member.
MIT Sea Grant Marine Anthropologist Madeleine Hall-Arber is one of the founding members of a newly established non-profit organization, the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc. The mission of the Center will be: To educate the public about…
Second World Congress on Small-Scale Fisheries
In September, MIT Sea Grant¡s Madeleine Hall-Arber participated in the second World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (WSFC) held in Merida, Mexico. The congress is a trans-disciplinary forum focused on small-scale fisheries where fishermen from…
MIT Sea Grant Marine Scientists to Teach MIT Course on Coastal Marine Communities
MIT Sea Grant marine scientists, Dr. Carolina Bastidas and Dr. Juliet Simpson will teach a class to MIT students during the Independent Activities Period (IAP) at MIT in January 2015. The class, titled, "Coastal marine communities of New England",…
