Weary of increasingly restrictive regulations and harmful management decisions based on faulty data, fishermen's groups worked together to push back against policies seemingly aimed at getting them off the water.

Among the issues fishermen face are inflexible stock rebuilding deadlines imposed by the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the unprecedented federal closure of the black sea bass fishery last October, the institution of a federal salt water registry, commercial pots on artificial reefs, catch shares and tougher regulations on favorite species.

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