Quotas limit the amount of wet fish - such as cod, bass and ray - boats can catch to protect fish stocks.

BBC: Jersey States discussing local fish quotas

What he leaves out is this: If done well, it will also catch you fish--eventually.

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He also knows more about the Pacific than the crew of the Essex did, and about why in the Desolate Region, so-called, they failed to catch fish.

ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea

In a fishery with a large, unproductive stock that grows slowly, fishermen may prefer short-term profit to the promise of low long-term income and catch all the fish straight away.

ECONOMIST: Fishing and conservation

"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish--striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog)--then sell them on the black market.

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Investigators found that, in all, 13 boats with alphabetically sequenced names had coordinated activities at sea, including transshipment of fish, refueling, and changing of crew and provisions, to evade boat-specific limits on catch.

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MPs were holding the debate ahead of the Council of EU fisheries minister who will set the so-called "Total Allowable Catch" (TAC) that fishermen are allowed to fish in the coming year.

BBC: Fisheries debate

The company returned to profitability by 2000, but it soon got into a different kind of trouble: In a world where three-quarters of sea fish varieties are considered to be fully fished or depleted, illicit operators use subterfuge to exceed catch limits.

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