Fisheries Managers Must Chart a New Course ; Hard Catch Limits Are Slowly Gaining Acceptance; but Will They Come in Time to Save the Cod?
Portland Press Herald › February 05, 2006
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result, the approach taken by fisheries managers to address declining regional stocks at a meeting in Portland this week might be viewed as, well, not right.
Once again, the New England Fishery Management Council was forced to revise regulations that had failed to control overfishing of seven of the most commercially valuable stocks.See the full content of this document
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Fisheries Managers Must Chart a New Course ; Hard Catch Limits Are Slowly Gaining Acceptance; but Will They Come in Time to Save the Cod?
Once again, it decided to cut the number of days fishermen can spend at sea pursuing cod, flounder, white hake and other species in hopes of rebuilding dangerously depleted populations.
This time, the reductions will leave the typical skipper tied up at port for a...See the full content of this document
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