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Old Dog, Same Tricks - When it comes to fisheries economics, NMFS just won’t learn.

Old Dog, Same Tricks - When it comes to fisheries economics, NMFS just won’t learn.

27 Oct 2016 3:02 PM | Anonymous

et again, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued the 2015 Fisheries of the United States and under reports the value of good fisheries management to the United States economy. While groups such as Coastal Conservation Association, American Sportfishing Association, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership have advocated for the inclusion of the economic footprint of the recreational fishery alongside the economic footprint of the commercial industry, NMFS has only responded to this request by ignoring it....

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