Bill Hogarth Backs Fish as a Public Resource as Policy Makers Take Up MSA Re-Authorization (Opinion)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] Opinion by Lee Crockett - February 20, 2015
Crockett is the Director for US Oceans at The Pew Charitable Trusts
As a North Carolina graduate student, Bill Hogarth remembers fishermen proudly hanging giant marlin high on the wharf at Morehead City so people could admire and photograph the prized catch. But after the crowds lost interest, it was Hogarth's job to cut down the nearly half-ton behemoths and watch their lifeless bodies float out to sea.
Some 50 years ago, many people saw the ocean's bounty as limitless. But those images of wasted fish made a lasting impression on Hogarth, who eventually brought a conservation ethic to his role as the country's head of ocean fisheries under President George W. Bush...
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