Fishing Partnership Health Plan – “High Quality Affordable Health Coverage for Commercial Fishing Families.”

Update on the Fishing Industry Health Care Coverage Act of 2008

ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT

H.R. 5404 and S. 2630

Commercial Fishing Industry Health Care Coverage Act of 2008

Please note: These organizations have committed their support (verbally or in writing) for the Commercial Fishing Industry Health Care Coverage Act of 2008.

Fisherman’s Health Plan

• Health Plan H.R. 5404
• Health Plan Senate
• I-9 Form
• Mass. Sets National Course for Fisherman Insurance

Boarding and Inspection of U.S. Fishing Vessels on the High Seas in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

• Vessel Member information

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Commercial Fishermen of America
Apostleship of the Sea

REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Albacore Fishing Association
Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union of the Pacific
East Coast Tuna Association
Gulf Fishermen’s Association
Institute of Fisheries Resources (San Francisco)
Maryland Watermen’s Association
Northeast Seafood Coalition
Northwest Albacore Producers Association
Pacific Coast Federation of Commercial Fishermen?s Associations
Seafood Producers Cooperative
Southern Shrimp Alliance
United Fishermen of Alaska
Western Fishboat Owners Association

STATE & LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association of Family Fishermen (LA)
Bourgeois Fishing Charters (LA)
Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association
Fishing Vessel Owner’s Association (WA)
Florida Keys Commercial Fishermen’s Association
Garden State Seafood Association
Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association
Grand Bayou Community United, Port Sulfur, LA
Griffin Fishing Charters (LA)
Hawaii Longliners Association
Ladies of Lafourche (LA)
Louisiana Bayoukeeper, Inc (LA)
Louisiana Charter Captains Association
Louisiana Environmental Action Network/Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper
Louisiana Shrimp Association
Maine Lobstermen’s Association
Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership
Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association
Organized Seafood Association of Alabama
Penobscot East Resource Center (ME)
Port Arthur Fishermen’s Association (TX)
San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association
South Carolina Fishermen’s Alliance
Stonington Fisheries Alliance (ME)
United Commercial Fisherman’s Association (LA)
Washington Trollers Association

David Bergeron, Vice President
Fishing Partnership Health Plan
1383 Washington Street
Newton, Massachusetts 02465
dbergeron@fphp.org
www.fphp.org
(617) 680-3548