Our nation’s fisheries are recovering, in stark contrast to much of the rest of the world, where fish stocks are overfished and continue to dwindle, science on sustainable catch levels – if it even exists – is ignored, and illegal fishing runs rampant.

But that success is in jeopardy because some want to backslide on a law that has worked well.

Since 2000, 34 of our nation’s fish stocks have been rebuilt. Between 2012 and 2013, the total number of fish stocks listed as overfished or depleted fell from 19 to 17 percent. During that time, the National Marine Fisheries Service added South Atlantic black sea bass to the list of rebuilt stocks. Because of this success, managers were able to double the annual catch for black sea bass last year.

Sacramento River fall-run king (Chinook) salmon also rebounded, although they were never overfished, but had suffered due to low flows in their spawning streams and water diversions that killed baby salmon before they could reach the ocean.

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