For the first time in a generation, fish populations are getting healthier – science-based management and rebuilding requirements have led to the recovery of 23 fish species since 2000, according to NOAA Fisheries. This list includes popular fish like New England sea scallop, which comprises the second most valuable commercial fishery in the country, and summer flounder, a favorite for recreational anglers and local seafood markets in the Mid-Atlantic.
And it’s all thanks to the bipartisan, 36-year-old Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the law that’s helped to bring America’s marine fish populations back from the brink of collapse.
That law, however, is under attack right now by fishing lobbying groups that have organized a rally in Washington, D.C. today. Preserving the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) is the most effective way to keep fishermen fishing by ensuring that enough fish remain in the sea to spawn the next generation.
In fact, recreational fishing trips have actually increased since the major conservation provisions were added to the law. In the Mid-Atlantic, for example, the number of recreational angler trips increased by nearly one-third (from 15 million to nearly 20 million trips) from the 1990s, when popular fish species were depleted, to the 2000s, as fish species were recovering to healthy levels. Most interestingly, while the number of fish permitted to be brought ashore was restricted to allow populations to recover, the overall number of fish caught (including those thrown back) kept increasing along with the growing number of fishermen.
Bottoming out. 7 miles below the sea surface in the Mariana Trench - the deepest place on earth. Solo.
This is what the lads have to look forward to in Itajai, Brazil. But it will take 19 days +/- across the south Pacific into the southern ocean then up the coast to Brazil for the six Volvo 70's.
It sounds like a blast. A 24-hour run of 527.8 nautical miles has earned Rhode Islander Ken Read’s PUMA team the IWC Schaffhausen Speed Record Challenge award for Leg 4 of the Volvo round the world race. And it helped them to a 2d place finish on the 5,200 mile, 19 day Sanya, China to Auckland, NZ Leg 4. But in a Bangor Daily News syndicated piece Read spoke candidly about the price his team paid for their northerly run to high winds and a good sailing angle. 
Contains Crab, Wheat, Egg, Soy. OK, a little mayo, some butter, green onion and mustard, vinegar, salt and Old Bay seasoning, that old reliable bit of zing. Maine Made. 
I can only vouch for the crab cakes. I've got the clam cakes for Friday night, which is fish night. Except that every night, most lunches and some breakfasts feature fish when I'm up here in Friendship, knocking about Knox County by myself. Don't believe me? Check it out - visit Harmon's HERE
They're fishermen. They like to fish - offshore, mainly out of Montauk.
Had a half dozen at Tony's Pier on City Island Avenue; took another half-dozen home - at a buck a piece. Briny, fresh from the Norwalk Islands on the Connecticut shore. Get 'em from Norm Bloom & Sons.
Lobster 'the size of a small child' caught in Maine - Telegraph: "The 40-inch male crustacean, about the size of a three-year-old child, was freed in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, said Elaine Jones, education director for the state's Department of Marine Resources.
