Magnuson Created Laws "with Teeth and Timetables" that Reversed Fishery Declines in the US
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The New York Times] by Sylvia Rowley - April 19, 2016
“My wife told me to sell the boats,” says Brad Pettinger, a longtime trawl fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. “But I said, honey, who’s gonna buy them? At that time we just didn’t have anything.”
The “anything” was fish to catch. Fifteen years ago, America’s vast $50 million Pacific groundfish fishery, which stretches some 1,200 miles from Southern California to the Canadian border, collapsed...
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