California's "wetfish" industry thrives as one of world's best managed fisheries (Opinion)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Orange County Register] Opinion by D.B. Pleschner - September 2, 2014
D.B. Pleschner is executive director of the California Wetfish Producers Association
Fishermen are allowed to harvest only a small percentage of the overall fish population.
Despite gloomy predictions of El Nino and the broader impact of climate change on the ocean and planet, California's historic wetfish fisheries carry on - still the foundation of California's fishing economy.
More than 150 years ago, Chinese fishermen rowed Monterey Bay at night in sampans, with baskets of burning fat pine on the bow used as torches to attract market squid, which fishermen harvested with round-haul nets...
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