One fishery after another petered out in the wild, and regulators curtailed fishing to preserve species.
Decades ago, in response to the fisheries crisis of the early 1990s, the federal government curtailed fishing in 8,887 square miles of New England waters where fish live and spawn, including 26percentt of Georges Bank.
Scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service NMFSS) insist that curtailing fishing is necessary to assure the sea lions' federally mandated recovery.
For instance, managers could monitor fish numbers in a marine reserve next to a fishery and curtail fishing if the distance from the fishery's edge to the nearest region of healthy fish populations increases.
But that was before dam construction sharply curtailed the fish's access to the Volga and other spawning grounds, before pollution reduced fertility and before the Soviet Union collapsed and strict control gave way to rampant poaching.
In the dry year of 2002, the Interior Department ordered water distributed to irrigators and tens of thousands of salmon in the Klamath died; in 2007, low salmon populations in the Klamath led to sharply curtailed commercial fishing.
Three-quarters of the 50 Akwesasne Mohawks interviewed have ceased or significantly curtailed their local fish consumption due to the issuance of fish advisories or witnessing or hearing about deformities on fish.
As a senator, he proposed a bill to curtail Indian fishing rights.
The global efforts to curtail the fishing and exporting of caviar from the Caspian Sea — the historical center of sturgeon fisheries, where overfishing, pollution and poaching have depleted wild populations — have squeezed supplies and driven up prices.
The toll from the nuclear disaster — which has disrupted farming and fishing, curtailed power supplies across eastern Japan, and inflicted other wounds on the economy — is yet to be tallied.
