Accelerating Rescue and Recovery
Green and White Hope is partnering with multiple organizations to improve and accelerate the rescue and recovery timelines and capabilities across the Maine coast. Due to our remote location, the most likely first responders will be the fishing community and the Department of Marine Resources. Establishing well known protocols in Maine harbors along with ensuring partnerships in place for specialty capabilities only needed in critical incident situations (i.e. deep water diving, etc.) The following projects are underway to action this area.
Document Harbormaster Protocols
Green and White Hope is collaborating to create standard incident protocol documentation that harbormasters can share with their commercial fishing community to ensure the community is engaged immediately in an orchestrated way that will aid law enforcements efforts to rescue person(s) who may be in danger. Links to the created documentation will be posted when available.
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Partners: Green and White Hope with Maine Commercial Fishing Safety Council, Maine Department of Marine Resources, etc.
HP1143, LD 1708 - An Act to Create a Commercial Fishing Safety Fund
Representative Tiffany Strout of Harrington, ME has presented a bill cosponsored by Senator Marianne Moore of Washington County, ME to authorize the establishment of a Commercial Fishing Safety Fund to improve the Marine resources departments ability to conduct search, rescue, and recovery operations. This bill was inspired by challenges that occurred when 2 fisherman were lost recently in Washington County. The bill is currently going through the legislative process. It was unanimously supported by the Marine Resources Committee on Thursday, 24 April, 2025. Green and White Hope will continue to track progress as it proceeds to legislative vote.
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Partners: Green and White Hope with Department of Marine Resources, Maine State Legislature, Maine State Police, etc.