NMFS Northeast Region

Commerce Secretary Daley Announces

Disaster Relief Program for Fishermen

For Immediate

Release

June 9, 1999

For more

information,

contact:

Teri Frady

Chief of Research

Communications

NEFSC

(508) 495-2239

tfrady@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu

or

George Liles

(508) 495-2378

george.liles@noaa.gov

Gloucester, Mass. -- The Commerce department will provide $5 million in disaster relief to commercial fishermen who have suffered losses because of declining fish stocks in the Gulf of Maine, commerce Secretary William M. Daley announced today.

A press release describing the relief program is available at the NOAA News Release site.

NMFS/NER press releases can be found online:

http://www.wh.whoi.edu/in.html

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