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- So much talk about so few fish
  Posted by Jeff from Crosscut
  The salmon fisheries of the Northwest have spawned a new industry of bureaucrats, lawyers, environmentalists, sport fishers, commercial interests, scientists, and natives, all focused on the absence of fish. Meanwhile, four sockeye returned last summer to a lake in Idaho once teeming with tens of thousands.
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- U.S. Attempting to Reshape Fishing Rules
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Congress is preparing to rewrite the nation's fishing rules in a bid to improve the much-criticized system for managing fisheries. Some pros and cons.
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- Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  In the past six years, snow crab catches have dropped 85 percent. Most other crab species are in a similar slump. Overfishing is probably a factor — but not the only one. Biologists also have documented a northward shift of crab populations, away from warming waters in the traditional fishing grounds of the southern Bering Sea. Fur seal numbers are dwindling, despite a 20-year-old ban on commercial hunting. Stellar sea lions were declared endangered in 1997. Seabirds that once flocked to the region by the millions are in precipitous decline.
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- Governments failed to stop overfishing
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  "Given the perilous overall state of marine fisheries resources and the continuing threats posed to the marine environment from over-fishing and damaging fishing activity, the need for action is immediate," said Simon Cripps, director of the World Wildlife Fund's global marine program.
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Fisheries

So much talk about so few fish

U.S. Attempting to Reshape Fishing Rules

Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice

Governments failed to stop overfishing

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