Final report : Massachusetts red tide technical assistance and disaster relief

This report to the Administrator of the Northeast Regional Office of NOAA Fisheries and other interested parties summarizes the distribution of $2 million to the commercial shellfishermen of Massachusetts according to a Congressional appropriation in June 2006, for $5 million for the states of Maine and Massachusetts to address a red tide fisheries disaster declared in 2005. The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (MarineFisheries) developed the Red Tide Technical Assistance and Disaster Relief program to expedite deliverance of funds to affected fishermen and fishing communities. Grant no. NA06NMF4520318