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Fishing law brings big changes.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 26-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fishing law brings big changes.(Business)(Reauthorized fishery act could have an impact on Oregon's coastal economy for years)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

FLORENCE - You might call it The Law of the Sea.

The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is the final authority for a 197-mile-wide band of ocean territory wrapping around the United States. It kicked Russian, Japanese and Norwegian fishermen out of the United States' staked-out stretch of ocean upon its original passage in 1976 and set the ground rules for the nation's first organized commercial fleet.

Now, the act has been reauthorized for the first time in a decade, bringing big changes to the way fisheries are regulated - changes that could leave significant footprints on Oregon's coastal economy for decades.

The law was hailed by conservationists, booed by powerful seafood buyers and met with some anxiety by the fishing fleets most affected. The provisions range from minuscule and bureaucratic to sweeping and life-altering, especially for fishermen whose livelihood is dependent on how many fish they're allowed to haul in each season....

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