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NMFS stands by its numbers, however, and is considering even tougher restrictions, such as limiting the number of shark-fishing permits and setting minimum size requirements for each species. Another option, which requires cooperation from individual states but is enthusiastically supported by environmental groups, is to close critical inshore pupping...
International regulations on shark fishing are much harder to implement than local laws. Three years ago, the member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ordered an investigation into the status of sharks worldwide. A preliminary version of that report, issued last December, warned of commercial fisheries...
Thick swordfish steaks. Orange roughy fillets. Great mounds of red-fleshed tuna. Judging from the seafood sections of local supermarkets, there would seem to be plenty of fish left in the oceans. But this appearance of abundance is an illusion, says Sylvia Earle, former chief scientist for the National Oceanic...
If fishermen around the world soon start hauling back empty nets and fishing lines, it will not be for lack of warning. In the 1990s, after increasing for nearly four decades, the wild catch of marine fish leveled off worldwide and in some years actually declined. "We are reaching, and...
Until now, the worst threat most creatures of the sea had faced at fishermen's hands was so-called commercial extinction. Whenever local populations of a particular fish plummeted, boats simply targeted some other species or moved to more distant waters. The depleted stocks almost always recovered. But now, experts...