A few little words cut snapper limits - al.com

A few little words cut snapper limits - al.com: "For Mike Thierry, a Dauphin Island charter boat skipper, the problem boils down to a few key words in the law governing the nation's fisheries.

The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, passed in 1976, once commanded that regulators end overfishing as soon as possible. But in a 2006 update, the language was changed to set a deadline, 'fishing year 2010.'

That has led to dramatically stricter limits being applied to fisheries around the nation, from summer flounder off New Jersey to beeliners off North Carolina, to snapper, amberjack and grouper in the Gulf."