SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Federal fishery managers voted Monday to keep the U.S. West Coast Pacific sardine fishery closed for the upcoming commercial season.
This will be the third year in a row there have not been enough sardines to support a fishery.
Sardines were a thriving fishery on the West Coast from World War I through World War II. But their numbers, and the fishery, crashed in the late 1940s.
The conservation group Oceana lauded the decision.
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