{"id":19821,"date":"2020-05-06T12:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=19821"},"modified":"2020-05-06T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:18:06","slug":"robin-alden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/robin-alden\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Alden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"19822\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19822 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/05\/Alden_Robin-crop-Credit-Kevin-Bennett-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Alden\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/05\/Alden_Robin-crop-Credit-Kevin-Bennett-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/05\/Alden_Robin-crop-Credit-Kevin-Bennett-105x73.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/05\/Alden_Robin-crop-Credit-Kevin-Bennett-317x220.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/05\/Alden_Robin-crop-Credit-Kevin-Bennett-423x293.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/05\/Alden_Robin-crop-Credit-Kevin-Bennett.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Alden<br \/>Photo by Kevin Bennett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robin has worked in sustainable fisheries since she moved to Maine in 1971. She retired as Founding Executive Director of Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries in 2018. Robin was Commissioner of Marine Resources during the 1990s. Prior to that, she founded and ran <em>Commercial Fisheries News<\/em> for over 20 years. Robin also co-founded and managed Maine Fishermen\u2019s Forum, initially while working with Maine Sea Grant, all part of her mission to further science and effective policy by bridging the gap between fishermen\u2019s on-the-ground knowledge and academia. A graduate of University of Maine, she has been involved in a number of collaborative efforts, including founding the Downeast Fisheries Network. She is the recipient of the Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council, a 2017 Benchley Award \u201cHero of the Seas\u201d award, and was named a 2016 White House Champion of Change for Sustainable Seafood. Robin and her husband, Ted Ames have two grown sons and live in Stonington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin has worked in sustainable fisheries since she moved to Maine in 1971. She retired as Founding Executive Director of Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries in 2018. Robin was Commissioner of Marine Resources during the 1990s. Prior to that, she founded and ran Commercial Fisheries News for over 20 years. Robin also co-founded and managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19821","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19829,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19821\/revisions\/19829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}