The Editor's View: Presidential Politics and Fisheries - Should we be Afraid?
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Editors View] by John Sackton January 20, 2015
Presidential Politics and Fisheries: Should we be afraid?
Are commercial fisheries about to be sacrificed in Washington due to loss of leadership and influence?
Last week NOAA issued the latest statement about their intentions to revise the language of National Standard 1 - the document that controls how regional management councils implement the Magnuson Stevens Act.
For many years the precepts of Standard 1 were fixed: Fisheries must be managed on the basis of the best available science to create the optimum yield in national benefits, defined as both commercial and recreational opportunities. Yet since most fisheries in the 200 mile federal waters were commercial, and producing seafood for public consumption was deemed a national interest, the most visible work of the councils has been in managing the commercial fishery...
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