According to the report, 7 stocks are no longer subject to overfishing, 4 stocks are no longer overfished and 3 stocks have fully rebuilt. Additionally, no stocks have been found newly subject to overfishing. Among those no longer subject to overfishing are yellowfin tuna \u2013 Central Western Pacific, bigeye tuna \u2013 Atlantic, and both the north and south stocks of monkfish.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is heartening to see these kinds of successes,\u201d said John Connelly, President of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI). \u201cIt shows not only the seafood community\u2019s commitment to sustainability but the effectiveness of the fisheries management system run by NOAA\u2019s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS.)\u201d<\/p>\n
The report is published each year as part of a Congressional requirement under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe seafood community and the leadership at NOAA Fisheries continue to make sustainability their highest priority and this document is evidence that work and cooperation is paying dividends,\u201d said Connelly. \u201cWhat is really important to know about this report is that it confirms the vast amount of seafood Americans enjoy is sustainably managed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today released its 2007 Status of US Fisheries report and it contains \u201cgood news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}