Recovery knocks 21 fish species from watch list; conservationists, fishermen, chefs celebrate
September 02, 2014 at 21:02 PM EDT
Twenty-one species of fish made the leap Tuesday off a watch list of seafood to avoid as unsustainably overfished, leaving conservationists and many fishermen and chefs celebrating the turnaround of a West Coast fishing ground declared an economic disaster area by the federal government just 14 years ago.