US sets first catch limits in Caribbean fish
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The U.S. government is imposing limits on the number of fish that commercial and recreational fishermen can catch in the waters it controls in the Caribbean, saying previous types of restrictions haven't protected dwindling populations of dozens of species.
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Cape fishermen cry foul on quotas
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HYANNIS — Cape and Islands fishermen told federal regulators Thursday that they needed greater protections to survive in a fishery where bigger boats with access to cash and fish quotas were outcompeting them on their traditional inshore fishing grounds.
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SCALLOP UPDATE: Delmarva access area, Southern New England winter flounder
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WASHINGTON - January 26, 2012 -- At the most recent meeting of the Scallop Oversight Committee of the New England Fishery Management Council, the Committee took significant action to address problems with fishing in the Delmarva access area, while not yet making any concrete moves on yellowtail flounder bycatch.
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Feds announce new way to count recreational catch
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BOSTON—Federal officials say they're now using a more accurate method to count the nation's saltwater recreational fishing catch.
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New estimates of Atlantic, Gulf fishing will help determine recreational limits
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WASHINGTON -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on today announced that it’s using a new way to estimate the amount of fish caught by recreational saltwater anglers on the Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, the result of years of work on how to make the numbers more accurate.
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