BOSTON — In the world of environmental regulation, where the hope is to write rules that both industry and science can live with, few areas are as contentious as fishing. Especially on the East Coast, fishermen attack scientists as mired in bottomless ignorance about how fish are actually caught. Scientists sometimes describe fishermen as racing to catch the last fish, regardless of the harm to vanishing species. Multimedia
But new efforts to protect marine creatures have gained surprising support from researchers, regulators, engineers and fishermen.
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Author:CORNELIA DEAN
