NOAA Fisheries on 28 July released an annual report, and gave a preview of a report slated for release later this year, that both indicate U.S. fisheries are robust and in many cases improving – both in terms of sustainability and revenue.
NOAA Fisheries has released the 2019 Status of U.S. Fisheries Report, an annual publication that outlines the status of the country’s 461 managed stocks or “stock complexes” in the U.S., to showcase which stocks are overfishing, overfished, or have been rebuilt.
That report indicates that a record-low number of stocks in the U.S. are subject to overfishing: of the 321 stocks for which NOAA Fisheries can make a determination, 299 – or 93 percent – are not subject to overfishing. Stocks are considered subject to overfishing when a stock is being harvested at a rate that is too high…