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How the Atlantic Mackerel Bounced Back From Overfishing

Summary by Reasons to Be Cheerful
In the summer of 2018, while commercial tuna fishing off Maine’s Monhegan Island, Tim LaRochelle kept encountering a species different from the one he had set out to hook. “We were catching tons of mackerel,” he recalls. “Just vast, vast amounts.”  Seeing profit potential in a fish that hadn’t previously been his priority, LaRochelle took a cue from the ocean and rigged up his 42-foot boat, the Mary Jane 2, with an automatic jigging machine — th…
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Reasons to be Cheerful broke the news in on Friday, April 18, 2025.
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