{"id":6692,"date":"2012-05-16T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:49","slug":"u-s-fisheries-status-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/05\/16\/u-s-fisheries-status-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Fisheries Status Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6693\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/05\/16\/u-s-fisheries-status-improving\/snow-crab\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Snow Crab\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Snow crab&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6693\" title=\"Snow Crab\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab.jpg\" alt=\"Snow crab\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wiki\/national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration-noaa\/\">NOAA<\/a> released their annual report this week, which shows that U.S. fisheries are improving.<\/p>\n<p>The fifteenth <a title=\"Status of Stocks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmfs.noaa.gov\/stories\/2012\/05\/05_10_12status_of_stocks_rollout.html\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Report to Congress on the Status of the Nation&#8217;s Fisheries<\/a> documents the agency&#8217;s efforts towards ending overfishing and rebuilding the nation&#8217;s fisheries. Key findings in the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>258 stocks were reviewed<\/li>\n<li>36 stocks are subject to overfishing<\/li>\n<li>45 stocks are overfished<\/li>\n<li>27 stocks previously overfished have been rebuilt<\/li>\n<li>51 stocks are in rebuilding plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the twenty-seven stocks declared rebuilt, six are new to this report. Those are Gulf of Maine haddock, summer flounder, widow rockfish, Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and Bering Sea snow crab.<\/p>\n<p>Fisheries and related businesses generate $183 billion per year in the U.S. economy and generate more than 1.5 million full and part-time jobs. Keeping the fisheries healthy through sound science-based management is an important task.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Clango's Flickr Stream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/clango\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snow Crab photo<\/a> via Creative Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA released their annual report this week, which shows that U.S. fisheries are improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[2854,740,1488,2110],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Snow-Crab.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}