Eating fish is good for you. Eating the right fish is good for our planet. That’s why Shedd is committed to promoting sustainable seafood.The red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico has long been considered a poster child for poor fisheries management. A combination of overfishing (catching red snappers faster than they can reproduce) and bycatch (juvenile red snappers are often unintentionally caught and discarded by shrimp fishermen) has drastically reduced this species' population in the Gulf to less than 3 percent of what it would naturally be.
Recognizing a need to rebuild Gulf red snapper populations, fishery managers implemented an individual fishing quota (IFQ) system in 2007. It assigns fishermen specific limits on how many red snappers they can catch. Initial signs indicate that IFQs are working: Red snapper populations are increasing, and the fish are returning to areas where they haven’t been seen in years.
Read more: http://www.sheddaquarium.org/3289.html#ixzz0d9Lcy45G
Recognizing a need to rebuild Gulf red snapper populations, fishery managers implemented an individual fishing quota (IFQ) system in 2007. It assigns fishermen specific limits on how many red snappers they can catch. Initial signs indicate that IFQs are working: Red snapper populations are increasing, and the fish are returning to areas where they haven’t been seen in years.
Read more: http://www.sheddaquarium.org/3289.html#ixzz0d9Lcy45G
Read more: http://www.sheddaquarium.org/3155.html#ixzz0d9Jkc60A
