Squid Hearing Spotlights Valuable Cape May Fishery
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press of Atlantic City] By RICHARD DEGENER - April 15, 2015
CAPE MAY — For a long time, American fishermen really didn’t really want to catch squid.
They caught some, as far back as the 1800s, and sold it as bait, but for centuries it was never a target species because Americans didn’t want to eat it.
In 1976, when America passed the 200-Mile Limit Law, kicking foreign fishermen 200 miles off the U.S coast for most fisheries, two exceptions were squid and mackerel. For several years, foreign boats continued catching them here, and later, in an enterprise perfected by Lund’s Fisheries in the Port of Cape May, American fishermen did the harvest and transferred the product at ...
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