Local priorities to include fisheries, beaches, and marine industrial economies

BOSTON—Recently, State Representative David Biele joined the growing Coastal Caucus for the current 194^th session of the General Court.

The role of the Coastal Caucus is to bring together legislators from throughout Massachusetts to discuss matters of common concern and work collectively to impact public policy on the federal, state, and local level. Legislators who represent 78 coastal communities from across Massachusetts work to build consensus within the caucus on issues impacting their districts including, but not limited to commercial and recreational fisheries, dredging, coastal infrastructure, beach nourishment, port operations, and other key issues important to our coastal communities.

“Understanding the importance of our local beaches, port activities, fisheries, and marine industries to South Boston and across Massachusetts, I look forward to working with my colleagues on infrastructure and economic development in our coastal communities while elevating concerns across the South Boston peninsula,” said Rep. Biele.  “From supporting our state’s fisheries and seafood industry in innovative ways to supporting crucial investments in port operations, the Coastal Caucus has done a tremendous job in responding to the needs along our coast and I look forward to support that important work this session.”

Currently in his fourth term, Rep. Biele has previously served as the Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security as well as a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, the House Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, the House Committee on Export Development, and the House Committee on Intergovernmental Relations.

Since 2019, Rep. Biele has also served as a Commissioner on the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, charged with supporting the Commonwealth’s public beaches, including beaches in South Boston.