anchovy overfishing

COURT REJECTS FEDERAL QUOTAS, RULES ANCHOVY OVERFISHED

 

By Suzanne Potter, California News Service

January 22, 2018 (Monterey) -- A conservation group is declaring victory, as a U.S. District Court judge in Northern California has ruled that the federal government's allowable catch for northern anchovies, set in November, is far too high.


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