Thursday, March 09, 2006

Ocean closures restrict trawlers:
Fish - Shutting nearly 150,000 square miles is the largest Pacific Coast effort to protect habitat and ground fish stocks.............

Thursday, March 09, 2006
PETER SLEETH
Trawlers with nets that scoop up fish along the sea floor will be banned from nearly 150,000 square miles of ocean extending 200 miles off the Pacific Coast to protect ailing fisheries, federal regulators announced Wednesday.

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