Shareholders' Alliance in the News

Deputy Director, Eric Brazer, was a guest on "Waterside Chats" with the Marine Fish Conservation Network. He discussed the work the Shareholders' Alliance is doing in the Gulf of Mexico to promote conservation and the livelihoods of commercial fishermen. 

May 5, 2023

 “We’re grateful that these funds will be available to support the next generation of hard working commercial fishermen. The future of American seafood is in good hands.”  - Eric Brazer, Deputy Director

December 30, 2022

Establishing and building on shared principles like sustainable domestic seafood; robust food security systems; durable working waterfronts; and the humanizing belief that we are more alike than different; this workgroup engaged energetically in a very constructive, truthful, and heartening conversation that set the stage for future collaboration.  

December 16, 2022

"...serial overharvesting happened as the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Gulf Council) failed to develop and approve a viable solution in a timely manner and ignored the advice from NOAA Fisheries’ general counsel that a lack of ‘common currency’ was a violation of MSA,” - Eric Brazer, Deputy Director

December 6, 2022

The Gulf Coast Seafood Alliance (GCSA) supports the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance, Southern Offshore Fishing Association, and A.P. Bell Fish Company, who filed the suit, in their continuing efforts to challenge an unfair and unlawful decision by NOAA.

October 26, 2022

"It’s clear that we need some creative thinking. The current tools in the management toolbox aren’t working." - Jane Black Lee

October 24, 2022

October 12, 2022

"The “problem” in the reef fish fishery isn’t the commercial IFQ programs. The problem is that the heavily-recreational-leaning Gulf Council and NOAA Fisheries are using outdated information to increase quotas when stocks are declining, then have to reduce quotas when the stock plummets even further. " - Buddy Guindon, Executive Director

September 12, 2022

Commercial fishermen who are challenging a major shift of Gulf of Mexico red grouper quotas to the recreational sector have drawn the surprising support of charter boat operators, who argue the revised quotas would hurt their businesses as well. 

September 8, 2022

"In recent history, commercial and charter fishermen are having a harder time catching fish that they normally catch." - Ashford Rosenberg, Policy Director

August 29, 2022

When the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Gulf Council) met in Corpus Christi last week, commercial and charter fishermen from Texas to Florida packed the meeting room and were unified around a single message – we are seeing warning signs that red snapper have started to decline.

August 29, 2022