The toll to the fisheries of the Northwest is included in this report. While fisheries in general seem to be harvested at “sustainable” levels, a number are not, and some it is, as usual, the result of international fleets not adhering to sustainable harvests. A caveat to all this is that given the current administration and it’s habit of misrepresenting facts to fit their goals, suspicion of these findings might be normal. Research shows that the an in charge of this report has been a long time NOAA sustainable fisheries expert, and was originally put in a leadership role after a scandal of his managers from the Bush Administration. It appears he and his data are trustworthy. If you have any issue with this data, please let me know and some facts to support your position.
The 2018 NOAA report on the status of U.S. fisheries has been released, and reveals that environmental factors are having the most impact on stocks that are overfished.
The report, which NOAA puts together every year, indicates that less species were subject to overfishing in 2018 than in 2017 – 28 versus 30 – a year that saw all-time low numbers of overfishing and overfished stocks. That means more than 90 percent of stocks are being fished at a sustainable level.
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