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A new study on the condition of the nation's fish stocks reports mixed results.

In 1996, Congress passed the Magnuson-Stevens Act, designed to rebuild commercial fish populations in ten years by ending overfishing.

But the study commissioned by the Lenfest Ocean Program of the Pew Charitable Trusts has found that the law hasn't been working very well.

Only about 5 percent of the stocks have been rebuilt over ten years.

And about 50 percent continue to be overfished.

Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, Professor of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire was the lead author of the study.

His study on the nation's fish stocks was sponsored by the Lenfest Ocean Program of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

It is to be published in the August issue of the scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis the Magnuson-Stevens Act gets a mixed performance review.

A new report says the Northeast is lagging behind the rest of the country in economic growth and job creation. Some say the solution is for the six New England states to join forces instead of competing against each other. We'll look at where the regional economy stands today and what a New England economic strategy might bring. John Clayton hosts. His guests are Ross Gittell, professor of management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, and Vice President and Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership, and Bob Tannenwald, Vice President and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and director of the bank's New England Public Policy Center. We'll also hear from Catherine Reilly, Maine State Economist. Other guests TBA.