PROVIDENCE, RI (October, 2008) – Commercial fishermen have made great strides in rebuilding biomass and reducing fishing mortality on several important groundfish stocks. However, a number of other stocks are still short of their biomass and fishing mortality targets.
The New England Fishery Management Council heard this mixed report during a special two-day meeting held Sept. 3-4 in Providence, where Paul Rago of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Northeast Fisheries Science Center presented the findings of the third and latest Groundfish Assessment Review Meeting (GARM), which wrapped up at the end of August.
Read the Commercial Fisheries News story in full