How Dwindling Fish Stocks Got a Reprieve

“My wife told me to sell the boats,” says Brad Pettinger, a longtime trawl fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. “But I said, honey, who’s gonna buy them? At that time we just didn’t have anything.”

The “anything” was fish to catch. Fifteen years ago, America’s vast…

Source: How Dwindling Fish Stocks Got a Reprieve – The New York Times