quote:The federal government may seek to widen fishing restrictions in Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in coming years to protect three bug-eyed, deep-water fish species once considered staples of the region's commercial- fishing industry.
The National Marine Fisheries Service Wednesday proposed to seek Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for bocaccio, yelloweye and canary rockfish, slow-growing creatures pushed to the brink by overfishing in the 1970s and 1980s.
