Fishing for Profit

Alexandra Gutierrez, KUCB – Unalaska

For the past dozen years, fisheries management experts have held that boats go after the biggest fish first. Now, biologists at the University of Washington are challenging the idea that people “fish down the food web.” They say fishing is a business, and that fishermen go for whatever is most profitable, whether it be crab or cod.

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