The Magnuson Act is on the Chopping Block and it Needs Your Help
The Magnuson Act is on the Chopping Block and it Needs Your Help NOAA Fisheries has released a terrible proposal to revise key parts of the Magnuson Act that will put our fishery management system in jeopardy. The new proposal plays directly into the hands of commercial fishermen, allowing fishery managers to leave fish populations at lower levels and even cancel management of some species altogether! The Ugly Details: NOAA Fisheries proposes to revise the National Standard 1 guidelines — the directives that help managers around the country prevent overfishing and rebuild stocks. If these changes are implemented, here’s what we can expect: Fishery managers could put off lowering catch limits and extend the timeline for rebuilding overfished stocks for years or even decades Managers could raise fishing quotas by carrying over uncaught fish from a previous year, without assessing the health of the stock Fishery data could be averaged, ignoring individual years that prove that unsu... Read More »