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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Gone Fishin'
Paralichthys dentatus (Summer Founder) Image from Supertock.com
Great article here on summer flounder, otherwise known as fluke. The article also addresses a warming North Atlantic Ocean and fisheries management. Summer flounder are a nice success story in terms of fisheries management. After the collapse of stocks in the late 1980s due to overfishing (of course; what else?), NOAA imposed strict quotas. While those quotas were painful for quite some time, they did allow time for the summer flounder stocks to rebound. And they've rebounded rather nicely.
