As a
follow-up to the Aug. 30 Louisiana Fishing Community Rebuilding
Coalition (LFCRC) meeting held at the Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries, the department has invited people
with fishing interests to meet in September to further discuss
recovery activities to be funded by the 2006 Federal Emergency
Supplemental Act.
The fishing
community sectors are scheduled to meet as follows:
- Monday
Sept. 18
Commercial Shrimp
1 - 4 p.m.
- Tuesday
Sept. 19
Oysters
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Wednesday
Sept. 20
Commercial
Crab
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Thursday
Sept. 21
Recreational Fishing
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Friday
Sept. 22
Commercial Finfish
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
All groups
will meet in the Louisiana Room at LDWF Headquarters at 2000
Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.
Louisiana
is slated to receive approximately $53 million in federal
fisheries disaster assistance funding, which is earmarked
by congress for oyster and shrimp ground rehabilitation and
debris removal and cooperative research to monitor fishery
recovery.
EDITORS:
For more information contact Martin Bourgeois at 225-765-2383
or mbourgeois@wlf.louisiana.gov.
