November 11, 2004
11/11 - BUSTED! California fishing company nailed on "hide-the-fish" scheme
The charges are the culmination of a three-year investigation by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the FBI and the U.S attorney's office in San Francisco. Authorities said they were coming down hard on hide-the-fish schemes that threaten to further undermine the devastated West Coast groundfish industry, which federal authorities declared a disaster in 2000. Check it out.
A sample of catch decline in California fishery for cowcod. Notice the recent plot doesn't even include the largest unit of catch.
Posted by Randy Olson at November 11, 2004 06:51 AMComments