A bill before Congress would stop the commercial fishery management regime of catch shares now at work in New England from being extended to more waters without support from fishermen.
“This bill will ensure that catch share programs are shut down if they are forcing people out of work,” said Rep. Jon Runyan, R-N.J., who co-sponsored bill HR-2772 with Reps. Walter Jones, R-NC, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.
Catch share programs are designed to control excessive fishing pressure, by assigning groups of fishermen set annual limits on their catches, and then allowing them to largely decide when and where to catch the fish.
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