The litany of disheartening news for New England fisherman is, as the movie cops say about the rap sheets of repeat felons, as long as your arm.
The winter flounder have all but disappeared. The menhaden (bunker) are nowhere to be found. The bluefin tuna is on the edge of extinction. Even the bluefish seem to be getting smaller by the year.
Perhaps the worst of the bad news is that according to The New England Fisheries Management Council, ground fish stocks, including halibut, hake, pollock, pout, and yellowtail, are over-fished and continue to be in a major state of decline.
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