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a doubt," he says. "You've got less nets in the water. That's
got to be a good thing, as far as fish being around. Last year,
we had a pretty good fishing season for us."
Too good, says Maggie Mooney-Seus, a spokeswoman for
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the
agency that issues the fishing guidelines. Last year, recrea-
tional fishermen exceeded their quota of 486 metric tons of
Gulf of Maine cod by 45 percent, hauling in 706 metric tons
of the fish. They caught 256 metric tons of Gulf of Maine
haddock, 146 percent more than their 74 metric-ton quota.
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At the Helm: "Man at the Wheel," Gloucester's Fisherman's Memorial,
built in 1925, commemorates the lives of fishermen lost at sea.
Photograph
by
Kenneth
C.
Zirkel/iStock
"We're not allowed to over-
fish stocks. Both the Gulf of
Maine cod and haddock stocks
are not in great shape. And
if the recreational fishermen
exceed the quota, then we have
to implement accountability
measures, and that's what's
being done here."
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