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D National Standards in the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Pages 258-259

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... Conservation and management measures shall prevent overfishing while achieving, on a continuing basis, the optimum yield from each fishery for the United States fishing industry.
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... (5) Conservation and management measures shall, where practicable, consider efficiency in the utilization of fishery resources; except that no such measure shall have economic allocation as its sole purpose.
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  • minimize bycatch

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  • sole purpose
  • adverse economic
  • overfished stocks
  • economic impacts
  • human life

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  • continuing basis
  • fishing industry
  • states fishing

  • consider efficiency
  • minimize cost
  • optimum yield
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  • assign fishing

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  • promote conservation
  • scientific information
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  • close coordination


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