Jordon Hudson is speaking up for the fishermen.
In an open letter to the White House and Donald Trump, the Provincetown, Maine native issued a “plea” to the president, asking him to reconsider the recent decision to cut the federally funded Maine Sea Grant.
“I am Jordon and I speak for the fishermen,” the 24-year-old girlfriend of Bill Belichick wrote on Instagram on Monday, March 3. “I speak for the fishermen, for the fishermen who have no voice.”
In her lengthy caption, Hudson described recently attending the 50th Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport, Maine, and said that when the news that the grant had been cut filtered out at the event, it “came like a tsunami.”“This program has been a pillar of support for marine research, sustainability and economic growth for more than 50 years,” Hudson wrote. “The forum floors filled with tears and fears as if everyone were drowning, and we were.”
The former Bridgewater State University cheerleader has long been a champion of the fishing industry.Dressed in a blue sequin dress with a coral reef design and carrying a lobster bag that read “Save Maine Fishermen,” Hudson said she wanted to bring awareness about the plight of fishermen in her Maine hometown.”I have a message that pays homage to my family and a message that I’d like to put out there and give a little bit of recognition to the fishermen in Maine,” Hudson, whose parents ran a fishery for years in Hancock, Maine, said.
Also on Instagram Monday, Hudson also posted a trio of glam black-and-white images in which she implored Trump to revisit his decision.
Hudson assailed the Trump administration’s decision to cut the program, and said similar actions led to her family’s business going under more than a decade ago.
“It was the reckless regulatory decisions by government officials with no stake in those decisions that forced my 9th generation fishermen father out of this industry more than 15 years ago,” she wrote. “Please do not put others through what we have been through.”