EDITORIAL: Saving the Fisheries: Updated Law Controls Catch Better
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Dec. 12--A last-minute bill to strengthen the nation's fisheries and reduce overfishing wasn't everything it could have been, but for legislation passed in the closing days of a lame-duck Congress, it was a decent compromise.
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By Scott Richardson;srichardson@pantagraph.com  The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the state's anglers and its aquaculture industry have something extra to be thankful for today.  The U.S.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By Melissa Mcever, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Feb. 9--Local anglers might have to cut their daily catches of spotted seatrout in half if new state regulations pass this year.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--The state fisheries board wants Gov. Sarah Palin to add another item to her growing list of scratched-out Murkowski actions.
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Fishermen are famed for overstating the size of their catches, but science has found an instance in which anglers have apparently underestimated their prowess.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.
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By MATTHEW DALY  WASHINGTON - Congress early Saturday approved a bill to revamp management of the nation's marine fisheries and strengthen protections against overfishing of dwindling stocks.
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By Randolph E. Schmid  SAN FRANCISCO  --  With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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Millions of casual fishermen reel in a higher take of the nation's most prized saltwater fish than previously thought, researchers say, prompting them to urge improved regulation of recreational fishing.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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By Randolph E. Schmid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN FRANCISCO -- With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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By Susan Cocking, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Lobster, Goliath grouper and sea trout dominated Thursday's meeting of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in Key Largo.
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Americans fishing for sport along coastlines or at sea are doing far more damage to US marine fish stocks than anyone thought, accounting for nearly a quarter of the catch from overfished species, researchers report in the latest issue of the journal
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Politicians and fishing leaders prepare to embark on the latest round of annual talks over catch limits.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - 'Fish, pay and go'. These three words  have long been used by green and anti-poverty activists to  describe a raft of agreements, signed since 1979, under which  European Union vessels scoop up as much fish as they can find  from the waters of about 20 poor countries in the wider world.  Little, if any, heed has been paid to the damage inflicted on  marine ecology or to people living in coastal communities.
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Sportfishing isn&#39;t just a tiny, harmless nibble on saltwater-fish populations, according to a new analysis of federal data. FISH COUNT.