How the West Coast Groundfish Fishery Can Keep Growing [Opinion]
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Oregon Live] By Andrew Bornstein, Shems Jud and Paul Kujala - Decembner 28, 2017
As the New Year approaches, we have good news to share with everyone who cares about America's supply of sustainable seafood. West Coast groundfish populations -- dozens of rockfish, sole and cod species -- are more abundant today than they have been for decades.
This didn't happen by accident and it didn't happen overnight. Our nation's foundational fisheries law, the Magnuson-Stevens Act, provides a forum -- the Pacific Fishery Management Council -- where fishermen, seafood processors, the National Marine Fisheries Service and ...
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