Fisherpeople and watermen may not like 'em, but there's more and more evidence accumulating that if you give fish stocks a chance to recover, they frequently do recover, sometimes pretty fast. So why do they resist restrictions so much? Just a relatively short time and they can keep practicing the craft that they enjoy so much.
A rebound for six fish populations
"NOAA’s Fisheries Service said the count showed that controversial and often unpopular catch limits imposed by the government have been working.
Among the rebuilt populations are the Bering Sea snow crab, the summer flounder on the mid-Atlantic coast, the haddock in the Gulf of Maine, the Chinook salmon along the Northern California coast, the coho salmon off Washington State and the Pacific widow rockfish, the Fisheries Service said."
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