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Ed Markey: The bottom line is, what do the requirements to end overfishing combined with ensuring that the overfished fishery…

On the recordJuly 22, 2013
The bottom line is, what do the requirements to end overfishing combined with ensuring that the overfished fishery operates together as part of a rebuilding process do in order to ensure that something like winter flounder stocks are in fact now something that are rebuilding successfully?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey inquires about the relationship between overfishing regulations and fishery rebuilding.

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