date:Apr 11, 2013
being dumped overboard dead, known as bycatch. Fisheries have been rebounding.
Under the ecosystem management program, the council will get regular scientific reports on the health of the ocean that will figure in decisions on setting fishing seasons, catch quotas and other issues.
Conservation groups were disappointed the program was nonbinding but felt the scientific reports will go a long way toward informing good council decisions, said Enticknapp.
Scott McMullen, a retired fisherman who