Atlantic mackerel population continues to decline, a year after fishery moratorium
Image: CBC News
(CANADA, 3/6/2023)
The following is an excerpt from an article published by CBC:
The Atlantic mackerel population is continuing to decline after a decade of falling numbers, according to a federal assessment presented to industry and environmental groups in Halifax last week.
According to the 2022 assessment, mackerel stock remains in the "critical zone" — where serious harm is occurring — and the average number of fish reaching spawning age is only 27 per cent of what it was between 1969 and 2011.
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