{Fish} Catch cuts 'bring bigger profits' (BBC)

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By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Fishermen would make even more money than previously thought if they let depleted stocks rebuild, according to research from Australia and the US.

When fish are more plentiful it becomes easier and cheaper to catch them.

Now researchers have shown how bigger stocks would bring bigger profits for those in the industry.

Writing in the journal Science, they report that Australia is to start managing some of its fisheries this way from the beginning of next year.

The publication comes a couple of weeks before European fisheries ministers meet to decide 2008 quotas for many species, including the severely depleted cod.
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