U.S. sardine fishery on West Coast to be shut down, scientists warn of collapse | Emergency Preparedness | Forums

Kind of scary when you think bout it, outfishing the ocean. The Maine shrimp season has been cancelled for the last three years for the exact same thing.

West Coast fisheries managers will likely shut down sardine fishing this year as numbers decline, echoing a previous collapse that decimated a thriving industry and increasing worries that other species might be withheld from the commercial market.

Fishermen are resigned to not being able to get sardines, but they hope the Pacific Fishery Management Council will not be so concerned that it sets the level for incidental catch of sardines at zero, shutting down other fisheries, such as mackerel, anchovies and market squid, which often swim with sardines.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne.....-1.3021366