Federal fishery managers have moved to beef up restrictions governing California’s drift gill-net fishery, with the goal of limiting bycatch of endangered ocean species, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News."The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to establish hard limits on the fishery, which is active off the coast of Southern California, by the summer of 2016," the report by Sandy Mazza stated. "If anyone in the fishery overreaches the new bycatch limits, it would result in a complete shutdown for the rest of the season."The PFMC is also pushing to have observers on every fishing boat to ensure the new bycatch limits aren’t breached, according to the report.According to some estimates, this California commercial fishing method kills an average of 100 marine mammals a year. Paul Shively, oceans ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
