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Overfishing imperils fish in deep waters - USATODAY.com
Schmid, The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
A panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said Sunday that overfishing in deep waters is putting at risk the least sustainable of all fish stocks..
'We're not really fishing there.
The shift to fishing at depths of more than 600 feet is new.
These areas began to be exploited after overfishing caused a decline in catch in more shallow coastal waters, said Norse..
Much of the deep water fishing occurs around seamounts, extinct volcanoes that rise from the seafloor to within several hundred feet of the surface..
She estimated that because of slow reproduction it would take 12 to 90 years for stocks of roughead grenadier fish to recover if fishing were halted, and 13 to 130 years for roundhead grenadiers..


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Open Directory - Business: Food and Related Products: Meat and Seafood: Seafood: Commercial Harvesting
the entire directory only in Seafood/Commercial_Harvesting Top : Business : Food and Related Products : Meat and Seafood : Seafood : Commercial Harvesting (79) .
Includes information and company links in fishing gear and other equipment, processing, packaging, fish trade, information technology, and related areas.
Alaska Division of Investments - Information about loan programs for commercial fishermen.
Alaska Report - News and information for the Alaska commercial fisherman and mariner.
BarentsNews.com - News and articles pertaining to the fishing industry in the Barents Sea.
Pages on different methods of salmon fishing.
- Connecticut company which manufactures flotation devices for the commercial fishing industry.
Coastal Fishing Supplies - Manufacturers and suppliers of commercial fishing equipment and Sportsfield protection and industrial safety net manufacturer and installation.
- Owns and provides management services to fishing and processing vessels which operate in the waters off Alaska, the Northeastern United States, and Russia.
Fishing Boat Photographs - Catalogue of about 5000 photographs of commercial fishing boats, mostly from Europe.
Fishing Nets, Nettings and Floats from India - One of the largest manufacturers and exporters of fishing nets and nettings in India.

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Alaska has banned fish farming in state waters -- within three miles of shore -- because it worries that the farms will spread disease and parasites and that the produce will compete with the wild fish that support the fishing industry.
King and chum salmon appear to be making a healthy comeback in Western Alaska, defusing tensions over commercial fishing in Area M far to the south..
Fishing the Kuskokwim River has been so good that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Friday eliminated the controversial weekly subsistence closures for the rest of the summer.
In February 2004, the Alaska Board of Fisheries approved extending Bristol Bay’s outer fishing boundaries to 3-miles offshore from Cape Menshikof (below Ugashik) to the bell buoy located on the Nushagak across to Protection Point (including all the commercial fishing districts of Nushagak, Naknek/Kvichak, Egegik, and Ugashik).
The extended fishing area will open at 9:00 a.m.
The department plans to have a 5-day per week fishing schedule for the first two weeks beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Regulations pertaining to the expanded harvest area, including other regulatory changes to Brsitol Bay’s commercial salmon fishery can be found on the Internet at ADF&G's website.

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