Long before the current wave of scandals, business interests have successfully protected stock options from attack in Congress.
Recent studies show that using MPAs (marine protected areas, marine reserves) can improve yield as well as protect stocks and sustain fishery viability.
Scottish ministers will argue that Scotland's strategy of implementing closed fishing areas to protect stocks, in a deal brokered with trawlermen, has played a part, too.
For 2009, the European Union agreed that 580,000 tons of cod could be caught in European waters, a 25percentt decline from a year earlier, in an effort to protect stocks.
The changes would also put an end to the annual wrangling over fishing quotas, which campaigners say leads to overfishing rather than protecting stocks.
For 2009, the European Union agreed that 580,000 tons of cod could be caught in European waters, down 25percentt from a year earlier, in an effort to protect stocks.
It has not achieved any of its objectives: to protect stocks, provide a sustainable food source and help fishing communities to be profitable.
See article.The European Parliament voted for a wide-ranging reform of Europe's Common Fisheries Policy, which includes protecting stocks that are at risk and stopping the "discard" policy of dumping dead fish into the sea.
Stones were thrown and boats rammed on Tuesday morning, in the latest of a series of incidents dubbed "scallop wars", as French boats try to protect stocks of the shellfish.
Our study illustrates the effectiveness of these reserves in protecting stocks of adult mussels, and although there was no evidence that reserves provided export of the larvae of mussels (the target species), they did provide larval export of non-targeted associated species.
