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The ICES report will call for zero catch of depleted deep-sea sharks and large reductions of fishing quotas for other deep sea species such as the orange roughly and the [...]

Record spawns of striped bass are being reported in the Atlantic coast, particularly within Chesapeake Bay. Fisheries managers say that the 1994 fish population in the region is healthier than that of the late 1970s and early 1980s and predict a recovered fishery by the 1996-1997 season. However, biologists warn that matured fish should be conserved to ensure good annual spawns. The Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources is also using a spawning stock biomass computer model to monitor the species.

Gulf of Mexico red grouper has been managed under increasingly severe harvest restrictions since 2004, but a 2007 stock assessment shows stocks to be 'in good shape, neither overfished nor [...]