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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 35 Number 7
March 2008
Bergeron leaves Mass partnership after 12 years
NEWTON, MA – David Bergeron has stepped down as executive director of the Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership to take a new position at the Fishing Partnership Health Plan (FPHP) as vice president for development and community relations.
“I am extremely proud of the work I was able to do with the FPHP while at the Mass Fishermen’s Partnership,” Bergeron wrote in an e-mail in mid-February. “I am looking forward to working with many of the same folks and others in my new capacity where I can devote my talents to advancing the cause of fishing family health care across the nation.”
Under Bergeron’s leadership, the partnership became an umbrella organization for around 18 fishermen’s associations in the Bay State after they all agreed to set aside their differences to unite and work for a cause they could all support.
That turned out to be health care. The result of that unified effort was the FPHP, a nonprofit corporation, which is now seen as a national model for making affordable health care available to fishermen all around the country.
Over the last 12 years, the Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership also:
• Advocated for fishing interests on several different fronts, including the state Legislature, the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, and the Nantucket Sound wind farm permitting process;
• Set up community panels to document industry and fishing family needs in six communities from Maine to Rhode Island;
• Provided hands-on safety training workshops for fishermen around the state;
• Conducted cooperative research projects; and
• Created a new ecosystem-based cooperative research partnership called the FISHER Institute.
Many of the partnership’s accomplishments are documented on its new web site at <www.mass-fish.org>. Bergeron now may be reached by phone at (617) 680-3548 or by e-mail at <dbergeron@fphp.org>. For more information on the Fishing Partnership Health Plan, visit <www.fphp.org>. /cfn/
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