Summer flounder are back, a National Marine Fisheries Service report shows, and the recovery is considered a fisheries management success story.
The 2011 Stock Status Report released this week declares summer flounder “viable” after, well, floundering since at the early 1990s and being listed as “recovering” since 2009.
The latest assessment shows the summer flounder stock is no longer overfished and that overfishing is not occurring.
“This is truly a fisheries management success story,” said Louis Daniel, director of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries in Morehead City. “Both commercial and recreational fishermen did their part through regulatory restrictions to bring the stocks back to where they are today.”
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