"If the shrimp industry collapses," Mr. Herndon said, with considerable asperity, "it's Osburn's and Shaver's regulations that will cause it, not overfishing by our boats".
A number of studies show that it is overfishing that currently outweighs all other human impacts on marine ecosystems, including climate change.
The reproductive characteristics of the black dogfish, such as a large female maturation size, may render it susceptible to overfishing, though it is more fecund than other deep-sea dogfish sharks.
Not for long, if we keep polluting its home and overfishing it.
"We don't talk about whether you should eat it or not, we talk about whether it's overfished or not," says Sarah Shoffler, fishery biologist and coordinator for the US delegation to the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC).
It's an excellent example of how stock supplies can change quickly: In the '80s, it was overfished, but fishing management was so successful that today, the population is exceeding pars.
The IUCN has listed the pigeye shark overall as Data Deficient, while noting that its rarity may render it susceptible to overfishing.
And he says he is providing environmental services like cleaning the bay of debris and replenishing the native oyster population that filtered the bay before it was overfished by native Indians.
As in New England, the reason is Magnuson-Stevens, and the limits on overfishing it imposes.
Due to overfishing it is now Critically Endangered with a very restricted range – however, on certain beaches in Orkney, you'll be tripping over their eggcases.
