Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fisherman's Association

John Pappalardo

Chief Executive Officer

“In fisheries, like other areas of resource management, the way forward is almost always a progressive middle-ground instead of an ideological extreme”

A Chatham resident, John Pappalardo actively serves on many local, regional, national and international fishery management boards and has worked with the Hook for more than a decade. 2011 marked John's fifth and final year as chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council, the body that overseas all fisheries rules in the region, and also serves as a state commissioner on the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission. John has fished commercially for cod, bluefin tuna, dogfish and striped bass out of Chatham and Harwich.

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