I wrote a piece for the New York Times’s Fixes column, looking at how the US has finally managed to reduce over-fishing.
Americans have known for decades that their boats were catching too many fish. But it’s only in the last 10 years that they started to make a dent in the problem, cutting over-fishing by two thirds.
Fisheries management is notoriously controversial, and progress is often glacial. But there are some examples where evidence-based policy-making seems to be working, and fishermen, NGOs and managers are collaborating.
With fish populations around the world in trouble, are there lessons here for other countries?
Sylvia Rowley 