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News Release 09-144
New Hope for Fisheries on the Horizon?
Scientists detail prospects for recovery, call for global action
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![Photo of Billingsgate Market, the largest U.K. fish market.](/news/mmg/media/images/fisheries1_f.jpg)
Billingsgate Market, the largest U.K. fish market, is a wholesale samples seafood market.
Credit: Joey Brookhart/MarinePhotobank
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![Photo of fish.](/news/mmg/media/images/fisheries2_f.jpg)
Haddock, whiting and cod are commercially-important fisheries in the North Sea.
Credit: Sascha Regmann/Project Blue Sea/MarinePhotobank
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![Photo of a fisherman in rain gear working on a net.](/news/mmg/media/images/fisheries3_f.jpg)
Three fisheries in Hastings, U.K., were awarded a sustainable fisheries certificate.
Credit: MSC/MarinePhotobank
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![Cover of the July 31, 2009, issue of the journal Science.](/news/mmg/media/images/science_073109_f.jpg)
The researchers' findings appear in the July 31, 2009, issue of the journal Science.
Credit: Copyright 2009 AAAS
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