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18th Apr 13

Managed by Chatham House

Financed by DEFRA

Rethinking Sustainability: A New Paradigm for Fisheries Management

06/09/2006

Author: Greenpeace and Alaska Oceans Program

The report calls for an overhaul of the management of US fisheries as the House of Representatives prepares to consider reauthorisation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the law that governs federal fisheries. The report criticises proposed legislation that would essentially maintain the status quo and details recommendations for a new management system based on ecosystems as opposed to the current focus on single species.

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