Many fisheries scientists say that with proper management, the wild-cod population can be restored.

If the fishing industry were a country, it would rank with the Netherlands as the world's 18th-largest oil consumer, a team of fisheries scientists is reporting.

Most fisheries scientists work for regulatory agencies charged with managing a particular stock in a particular port, he said.

Cashin said the plan did not accurately reflect all the recommendations of fisheries scientists.

Some fisheries scientists have said their studies of fish stock had not shown a correlation between fishing intensity and growth rates.

The valuable fishery could eventually move entirely out of American waters, some federal fisheries scientists said.

Electrofishing - is another recently developed technique, primarily used in freshwater by fisheries scientists.

Gillnets are sometimes used by fisheries scientists to monitor fish populations.

He is not widely recognized by fisheries scientists.

The fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly first developed the idea in 1995.