This year, the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) changed the definitions of some status categories so that species with no scientific stock assessments or incomplete assessments could be better integrated into the report. The report rates the health of 40 important commercial and recreational species as viable, recovering, concern, depleted, or unknown. Population levels can fall due to predation, inadequate forage, poor water quality, habitat loss, and disease, as well as fishing. The...

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They bought a 38-acre farm in Hunterdon County in 2004, and they are confident of converting the entire operation into an organic farm by the end of this year. The total number of farmers in the state, conventional and organic: 15,000 out of an overall population of 8.7 million last year. Courier News Online - Farm preps for organic future. If successful, they will be part of a growing trend -- New Jersey has about 2,200 organic farmers and experts expect that number to increase. Courier...

If you like, up the ante with one of the imported Italian tunas or a Mediterranean-style wild-caught canned tuna in olive oil (Chicken of the Sea has a new one out under its Genova label); when you drain the tuna, save the olive oil to use on the bread. This menu reverses the usual main-dish-to-sandwiches leftovers formula, starting with the sandwiches - an updated version of that old standby, tuna salad - followed by cool stuffed tomatoes. The menu: Most supermarket bakeries now are...

Earlier this month, Island fishermen learned that their share of the region's halibut allocation would fall to less than 2 per cent, while Quebec would get close to 60 per cent. The lawsuit, launched by the previous Progressive Conservative government in February, 2005, argued that the federal process for distributing resources was unfair and arbitrary. I will have to sit down with our legal team and have them explain it to me. Island fishermen complain that they have been shortchanged in...