Working Waterfront Festival

The Working Waterfront Festival

Celebrating Commercial Fishing — America's Oldest Industry

The Working Waterfront Festival In The News

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January 4, 2010 Working Waterfront Festival Publishes Book - Voices from the Waterfront: Portrait of the New Bedford Fishing Industry
September 17, 2009 Working Waterfront Festival Hosts Roundtable Discussion for Fishermen and Farmers
September 4, 2009 Native American Fishing and Farming Traditions to be Presented at 2009 Working Waterfront Festival
September 4, 2009 Festival Farmers Market and Expanded Food Court to Showcase Local Seafood and Seasonal Produce
September 4, 2009 FREE Children's Activities: A Boatload of Fun in Store for Children at the Working Waterfront Festival
September 4, 2009 2009 Working Waterfront Festival Overview
September 4, 2009 Working Waterfront Festival to Feature Cowboy Poet Joel Nelson
June 5, 2009 Voices from the Port Programs to Air on WBSM Radio (1420 AM)
May 18, 2009 Working Waterfront Festival Announces A T-Shirt Design Contest
February 19, 2009 Working Waterfront Festival Announces 2009 Theme
September 19, 2008 Area Students to Experience Fisherpoetry, African American Work Songs and Norwegian Folk Dance
September 15, 2008 Chesapeake Bay Crab Picker and Cook Janice Marshall to Share Famous Smith Island Cake Recipe
September 8, 2008 Festival Performers Include Alaskan Fisherpoet Dave Densmore
September 2, 2008 Working Waterfront Festival and National Park Team Up To Present Summer Camp
September 2, 2008 Over 100 Performers on Tap for 2008 Working Waterfront Festival
August 25, 2008 Molly O'Neill to Speak at 2008 Working Waterfront Festival
August 13, 2008 2008 Working Waterfront Festival to Feature Flume Tank
August 1, 2008 2008 Working Waterfront Festival: Theme to Explore Challenges Facing Ports
June 10, 2008 2008 Working Waterfront Festival Slated for September
June 6, 2008 Port of New Bedford Featured in PBS Documentary
May 6, 2008 Working Waterfront Festival Announces T-Shirt Design Contest
April 3, 2008 Working Waterfront Festival AHA Program to explore "The Greening of the Port"
March 6, 2008 Shellfishermen to be Focus of March AHA Program
February 11, 2008 2008 Working Waterfront Festival Lands Several Grants
February 7, 2008 Longshoremen to be Featured in February AHA Program
January 3, 2008 Working Waterfront Festival Joins AHA

The Project to Save Seafood and Ocean Resources Announces Creation of a New Website

The Project to Save Seafood and Ocean Resources: www.SavingSeafood.org

Fishing Facts

The fishing industry employees over 15,000 people in New England and 3,500 people in New Bedford, Fairhaven, Dartmouth and surrounding towns.

Fishing boat

Seafood harvesting and processing contributes $5.5 billion to the New England economy and $850 million to our local economy.

Fish is a healthy food source. It is high in protein and low in fat. Harvested from the ocean, wild fish is free of the antibiotics, pesticides, preservatives and dyes found in many other foods.

Many people who work in the fishing industry are from families who have fished or done fishing related work for generations.

New England's fishing industry employs people from many ethnic communities.

Fishermen are conservationists.
They have designed and supported many measures to conserve the resource:

These Regulations are working.

Safety

The industry is committed to improving safety at sea:

Tour a fishing boat