Improving Our Management of Forage Fish

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Improving Our Management of Forage Fish

Peter Baker, director of U.S. oceans, Northeast, spoke recently to fisheries experts from around the country about ways to improve the way we manage populations of forage fish—the small prey species with an important role in the ocean food web. Here's Baker's presentation to the Managing Our Nation's Fisheries III conference in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2013.

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