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09 Jan 2012: U.S. Imposes Catch Limits
On All Managed Fisheries For First Time

For the first time ever, the U.S. this year will impose catch limits for all 528 federally managed species, a new policy one official said will become an “international guidepost” for sustainable fisheries practices.

In New Approach to Fisheries,
Fishermen Manage the Catch

In Novel Approach to Fisheries, Fishermen Manage the Catch

An increasingly productive way of restoring fisheries is based on the concept of allowing fishermen to take charge of their own catch. But the success, Bruce Barcott writes, depends on a leader who will look out not only for the fishermen, but for the resource itself.
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After years of political wrangling, a coalition of lawmakers, environmental groups, fishing groups, and scientists were able to insert language into a reauthorized version of the Magnuson-Stevens Act — which governs all U.S. fishing — that will include annual limits on all fish stocks by the time the 2012 fishing year begins for all species. Some species, including mahi-mahi and wahoo, will have catch limits for the first time. “This simple but enormously powerful provision has eluded lawmakers for years and is probably the most important conservation statute ever enacted into America’s fisheries law,” Joshua Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group, told The Washington Post. Because the new limits were achieved in cooperation with regional fisheries councils, advocates predict a greater probability of success.

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