How the Atlantic Mackerel Bounced Back From Overfishing
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How the Atlantic Mackerel Bounced Back From Overfishing
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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