Working Waterfront Festival

The Working Waterfront Festival

Celebrating Commercial Fishing — America's Oldest Industry

The Working Waterfront Festival In The News

January 3, 2008 Working Waterfront Festival Joins AHA

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