Word: yellowtail
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...name is obscure, possibly tracing to one of the British kings of colonial times. But its status is clear: it is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Located in a West Virginia-sized patch of the Atlantic continental shelf, it harbors a cornucopia of yellowtail, cod and haddock, lobsters and scallops, swordfish and squid-some 200 species in all. Supporting a $1 billion a year fishing industry, it provides 17% of America's saltwater catch, 14% of the world...
...night." sang Captain Barry Boucher last week after tying up his 75-ft. trawler Shanty Girl in New Bedford, Mass. In eleven days on Georges Bank, off the New England coast, Boucher and his crew of five had netted 45,000 Ibs. of fish, including 30,000 lbs. of yellowtail flounder, which they sold for $28,000 in the red brick auction house at the foot of the pier...
...catch was a fluke-only once before this year had Boucher caught any yellowtail flounder-but New England fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took effect on March 1, extending U.S. jurisdiction over fishing in coastal waters to 200 miles from the old limit of twelve. The law is intended to save from extinction many species of fish-as well as much of the U.S. fishing industry...
...with even more fish than it landed last week. Since then, huge fleets of modern trawlers from foreign countries, most notably the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland and East Germany, have swept the prime U.S. fishing grounds off New England, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska almost clean of Atlantic cod, yellowtail flounder and haddock; stocks of hake, herring, mackerel and pollack were severely depleted...
Overfishing by both foreign and domestic fleets has been so bad that some marine scientists fear cod, haddock and yellowtail will never become abundant again. The productivity of East Coast fleets is also held down by the small size and unrefrigerated holds of most of their boats and outdated trawling methods...