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U.S. bans most Pacific sardine fishing after population crash

2016-04-12 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Federal fishery managers have banned nearly all sardine fishing off the U.S. West Coast for the second straight year in a move hailed by conservation groups as key to protecting decimated California sea lion herds. Pacific sardine populations have plunged by 90 percent since 2007, prompting the Pacific Fishery Management Council to vote Sunday to extend its prohibition on virtually all fishing of the small oily fish within 200 miles of the California, Oregon and Washington coasts. The sardine...

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