Underutilized fish can be overfished too – Sam Parisi, Gloucester

manatthewheelI keep hearing of the need to find markets to develop underutilized species, and it could help. The problem I have is every time we do this, all of a sudden these species are overfished. I blame NOAA for this because instead of putting a quota on these species they let the fishermen catch all they want. This is what happened to dogfish — there there was no quota and in no time, they were over fished.  Read the rest here 14:25

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