ASSOCIATED PRESS • October 27, 2022
Fishing regulators and the seafood industry are grappling with the possibility that some once-profitable species that have declined with climate change might not come back. Several marketable species harvested by U.S. fishermen are the subject of shrinking quotas, seasonal closures and other restrictions as waters warm and populations have fallen. For some groundfish species such as flounder in the Northeast, the changing environment has made it harder for fish to recover from years of overfishing that was already taxing the population.