Alaska groundfish management: is it precautionary and sustainable? Fisheries off Alaska account for around half of total U.S. harvests and are the state's No. 1 private-sector employer.(View II: NOAA Oceanographer)

From: Alaska Business Monthly | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Concern is growing over the state of the world's fisheries. A suite of human activities--unsustainable fishing practices, pollution and destruction of habitat--are threatening the ocean's capacity to provide food, maintain water quality and adjust to disturbances. (1) Although fishing is just one of the human activities impacting the world's marine ecosystems, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and U.S. National Academy of Sciences consider it the most serious. (2)

Fisheries--commercial, recreational and subsistence--are cornerstones in the Alaska economy ...

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