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For the time being the ban affects commercial and recreational ocean fishing. However the council has recommended that the California Fish and Game Commission consider barring river fishing as well.
This is the second consecutive year the commission has banned in-river salmon sport fishing. California bans salmon fishing for the season in Sacramento-area rivers and Klamath basin Skip to main ...
Captains of fishing boats on the California coast are bracing for salmon fishing to be severely restricted — or possibly canceled for a second year. Salmon populations are struggling, bringing ...
The fishing industry is worth $4 billion annually, as of 2010. [18] Fish harvesting and processing corporations are invested in the political process to maximize their profits, to protect against foreign competition and to prevent regulations from making their proprietary information available to the public.
There have been proposed regulations to shut down drift gillnet fisheries whose by-catch numbers (which include dolphins, sea turtles and other marine life) were too high. In 2014, California lawmakers pushed for the banning of gillnet fishing through letters to federal fishing companies. [23]
Venezuela was the first country to ban industrial trawling in its territorial waters and EEZ in 2009. [47] [48] Hong Kong passed legislation banning trawling on 18 May 2011 in an effort to restore the territory's devastated fish stocks and marine ecosystem. The ban came into effect on 31 December 2012.
Northwest Atlantic cod stocks were severely overfished in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to their abrupt collapse in 1992. Atlantic cod is a well-known demersal food fish belonging to the family Gadidae.
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