In 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) reviewed 522 individual stocks and stock complexes and made determinations of both overfishing and overfished status for 193 stocks and complexes; an additional 67 have either an overfishing or overfished determination.
"Two hundred fifty stocks or stock complexes have known overfishing determinations: 212, or 85 percent are not subject to overfishing, and 38, or 15 percent, are subject to overfishing," NMFS said in the report, "2009 Status of U.S. Fisheries."
This slight improvement in the percentages reflects new assessments that have added to the number of stocks with known overfishing determinations, and stocks no longer subject to overfishing.
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