US Fishery Management Under MSA Improves Again with Overfished, Overfishing Numbers at All-Time Low
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Michael Ramsingh - April 16, 2015
US fishery management under Magnuson continues to work according to NOAA's latest annual status report released this week. Last year US fisheries recorded 7 percent reductions in both the number of fisheries currently experiencing overfishing and the amount of fisheries whose stocks are overfished.
In NOAA's 2014 Status of US Fisheries report the number of domestic fish stocks listed as overfished or subject to overfishing has dropped to an all-time low since 1997, when NOAA began tracking stock status. By the end of last year 26 stocks were on the overfishing list and 37 stocks were on the overfished list. Each of these numbers were all-time lows for US fisheries. In total NOAA tracks 469 managed stocks and stock complexes in 46 fishery management plans...
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