The nation’s stocks of wild fish, considered weak or declining by Pew Environment Fund interests, are holding their own and improving slowly but steadily, according to the 2008 Status of the Fisheries Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
While recognizing that much work remains to be done, Jane Lubchenco, the nation’s top fishery administrator and former Pew stalwart, has described the report as showing the "best single year improvement in the number of stocks rebuilt."
The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the report, mandated by Congress, to the annual joint meeting of the eight regional fishery management councils last week in Boston.