For about a week last spring, I found daily Google alerts in my inbox filled with the news effectively trumpeting the message that “The latest NMFS figures show commercial fishing in the U.S. of huge economic importance, while recreational fishing are of relatively inconsequential value.” Many were from small local publications in Northeast and Alaska ports where commercial fishing dominates. The glee in their headlines couldn’t be missed. Well guess what. It ain’t so, Joe. The National Marine Fisheries Service just released a correction to its major report of last April, Fisheries Economics of the United States. The corrected report removes imported seafood from the mix, since that inflates and skews economic figures dramatically, with more than 64 percent of total seafood sales being from imported fish (which has much less value to ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
