Laura Kramar

 

Laura Kramar is a Senior Fellow working on a special collaboration between the Island Institute and the Midcoast Fishermen's Association (MFA) in Port Clyde.  She is assisting members of the Port Clyde Draggermen's Co-op - the last remaining ground-fishing fleet in Midcoast or Downeast Maine - in developing a marketing strategy to promote Port Clyde groundfish as a high-quality product caught with traditional, less-intensive gear and managed in an environmentally sustainable fashion. 

 

A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Laura brings an interest in local, sustainable food-production as well as a strong environmental ethic to her position. After professional experience with multiple aspects of a farm business, which included farming operations in addition to a produce stand and an outdoor-equipment retail store, Laura developed an interest in traditional family-farming. Laura is ideally suited to the MFA's goal of adapting the community-supported agriculture model to the fisheries, and she is excited to help establish one of the East Coast's first fisheries-marketing cooperatives. 

 

Laura received a B.S. in psychology from Appalachian State University and an M.A. in Resource Economics and Policy with a concentration in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Maine

 

 

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