Gulf snapper gets upgrade from NGO

摘要

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program in September removed the Gulf of Mexico commercial red snapper fishery from its "Avoid" list and now classifies it as a "Good Alternative." The announcement by the California-based Seafood Watch programcomes as a result of major management changes to the commercial red snapper fishery over the past seven years, the group said. Facing a dwindling stock after years of overfishing, a community of the Gulf's small, family-owned commercial red snapper fishing operations, fishery managers, and conservationists worked together to design a new program for the fishery.