Government Report Says U.S. Fish Stocks Rebounding

From: Sea Technology | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The Status of Fisheries of the United States report, recently released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows that considerable progress was made in 2003 to address excessive fishing rates and rebuild fish stocks to healthy levels. In 2003, four fish stocks were fully rebuilt, a record 10 species were removed from the list of over-fished stocks and over-fishing practices were stopped for five species.

"The American public can feel confident that U.S. fisheries are becoming more sustainable each year as we rebuild fish stocks that were once over-fished," said ...

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