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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Last week saw the release of the <i>Rhode Island Commercial Fisheries Blueprint for Resilience</i>, a plan co-created by 125+ members of Rhode Island's
fishing industry through an extensive two-year process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ocean State fisheries face an unprecedented convergence of challenges: warming water temperatures, changing food webs, habitat alteration, shifting demographics and labor markets, increasing competition from other ocean industries, and regulatory strain. The <i>Blueprint
for Resilience</i> recognizes the interconnected nature of these pressures and sets a course for addressing them as a system. It identifies goals, tools, and tactics associated with seven key strategy areas: public relations, civic engagement, the next generation,
innovative seafood marketing, working waters and coastlines, healthy habitats, and adaptive science and management.<br>
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The process that led to creation of the <i>Blueprint for Resilience</i> was decentralized and bottom-up. Implementation of its strategies will be just as distributed, borne on the shoulders of all who recognize the importance of wild-harvest fisheries to the
state of Rhode Island. If you would like to learn more about the process that created the<i>Blueprint</i> or play a role in its implementation, please contact the project organizers at <a href="mailto:ResilientFisheriesRI@gmail.com" target="_blank">ResilientFisheriesRI@gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Financial support for the project was provided by a Saltonstall-Kennedy grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Fiscal sponsorship
was provided by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey. The RI Department of Environmental Management provided in-kind support by facilitating communications, presenting information at workshops, and discussing project progress with the organizing team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__resilientfisheriesri.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2018_04_RI-2DCommercial-2DFisheries-2DBlueprint-2Dfor-2DResilience-2D1.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=XzmX5GTv6MlqEdzIVBZHl-6A6M577eF7p2sbOYuE2sk&m=BIxEmSALlUhXi7eu0Ks2epOCk-S1XCBEbP45IRC3sPQ&s=WH1wa_hPsV5m4gop06FkuAiobdyPQb6vgdnW6pw-ckY&e=" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">READ
THE FULL DOCUMENT</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__resilientfisheriesri.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2018_04_Blueprint-2Dfor-2DResilience-2DExecutive-2DSummary.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=XzmX5GTv6MlqEdzIVBZHl-6A6M577eF7p2sbOYuE2sk&m=BIxEmSALlUhXi7eu0Ks2epOCk-S1XCBEbP45IRC3sPQ&s=F2ojiQhcpcOlx44t7QcVcnbGZUOTurRt9xUDKj2yeqw&e=" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">READ
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="m-5747524295656476549gmail-aqj"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 7, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, South Kingstown Elks Lodge (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D60-2BBelmont-2BAve.-2C-2BWakefield-2C-2BRI-26entry-3Dgmail-26source-3Dg&d=DwMFaQ&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=XzmX5GTv6MlqEdzIVBZHl-6A6M577eF7p2sbOYuE2sk&m=Fja8WaokI_l4BorOR5GXBv00JtPO0uRI-N80YIM-uZY&s=rNoYfygScqNu1MiZ1FwH8GE5ycRIzBOgYwhUXHiioqQ&e=" target="_blank">60
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content of the <i>Blueprint for Resilience</i>, and a break-out group session where attendees will get to work envisioning how to implement the<i> Blueprint</i>'s recommendations moving forward. All members of the fishing industry and those whose work intersects
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