Opinion: Lobster Management Offers Clear Direction in Gulf of Maine after Failure of Cod Management
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [BDN Editorial Board] - January 26, 2015
Colonial America’s first true industry, groundfishing, has followed the path of many others. Technology improved as the industrial revolution took hold — it kept improving afterward — and a growing population of fishermen, both domestic and foreign, became more productive as they pursued cod, haddock and other species found near the ocean floor.
Today, that industry faces an uncertain future of depleted stocks, consolidation of the fleet, restrictive regulation and questions about whether species that long sustained some New...
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