Amendment 1 to the Golden Tilefish Fishery Management Plan (FMP),
which implemented the most recent catch share program in the Northeast
United States, became effective on November 1, 2009. It replaced a
program that allocated a fixed percentage of annual quota to three groups
of vessel owners with a program...
Bluefin tuna (BFT) stocks in both the Western and Eastern Atlantic are in
danger of commercial extinction due to over harvest. Years of exceeding
mortality quotas and lack of management action is to blame, as is illegal
fishing in the Eastern Atlantic. The species qualifies for a Convention on
International...