The Caribbean Fishery Management Council last week adopted proposed fishing regulations that would set annual catch limits for certain species in federal Caribbean waters.
The proposed catch limits involve species that are not considered overfished – a move that the Pew Environment Group likened to "visiting the doctor for preventive care, rather than waiting until you end up in the emergency room."
The council already had adopted proposed annual catch limits for species that are considered overfished, including snappers, groupers, parrotfish and queen conch.
However, under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Management Act, it also had to set annual catch limits for species that currently are not being overfished. Those are the proposed regulations that were adopted last week.
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