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Sea Grant funding helps Barnstable growers get seafood to families in need
Joint Effort with Cape Cod Cooperative Extension donates frozen, shucked oysters to Cape and Greater Boston food banks
Bronwen Howells Walsh
WOODS HOLE The Woods Hole Sea Grant program (WHSG) recently provided $85,000 in COVID-19 related rapid response funds to aid the Massachusetts shellfish aquaculture industry. Growers in Barnstable are among those participating and feeding families in need.
The effort to assist the $29.8 million statewide industry came as a result of the impacts the COVID-19 crisis had on the industry. About 69% of the growers (271 out of 395) are located in Barnstable County.
Bill Announcement [includes S. 945, the “Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act]
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On Friday, December 18, 2020, the President signed into law:
S. 910, the “National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2020,” which reauthorizes the National Sea Grant College Program through fiscal year 2025; clarifies that the scope of the program includes financial assistance for research, training, and technology transfer; and modifies the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program;
S. 945, the “Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act,” which requires certain issuers of securities to establish that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government, specifically if the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is unable to audit specified reports because the issuer has retained a foreign public accounting firm that is not subject to inspection by the Board;
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