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Boating Industry
Tuesday April 1, 2008
OAK PARK, Ill. – The Marine Retailers Association of America is backing a bill that would promote fish population re-building programs, the MRAA said in a statement Friday. The bill is called the Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act.
Under current law, fishing managers have two years to develop a plan to restore a fishing population and a 10-year window to accomplish the plan to restore fish populations that have been over fished.
The bill would allow fisheries managers to extend the 10-year rebuilding period for a species if certain common-sense conditions apply, such as economic conditions, changes in environmental and ecological factors or the target exceeds the highest abundance of fish stock in the past 25 years.
Tuesday April 1, 2008
OAK PARK, Ill. – The Marine Retailers Association of America is backing a bill that would promote fish population re-building programs, the MRAA said in a statement Friday. The bill is called the Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act.
Under current law, fishing managers have two years to develop a plan to restore a fishing population and a 10-year window to accomplish the plan to restore fish populations that have been over fished.
The bill would allow fisheries managers to extend the 10-year rebuilding period for a species if certain common-sense conditions apply, such as economic conditions, changes in environmental and ecological factors or the target exceeds the highest abundance of fish stock in the past 25 years.