PROVIDENCE, RI (April 28, 2008) – THEY TOLD US we were using nets with mesh size that was too small to allow juvenile fish to escape. We accepted and went to the largest mesh size in the world for the species we seek.
They told us we needed to protect spawning areas where fish reproduce. We closed thousands of square miles of the most productive areas in which we fished.
Then they told us this was not enough, so they closed tracts of ocean during certain months.