The Fishing Industry: By-Catch Study and Poet Fishers

A new study in the journal Fish and Fisheries finds that American fishing operations discard more than 20 percent of what they catch each year. Andy Rosenberg, a professor of Natural Resources Policy and Management at the University of New Hampshire was one of three authors of the U-S and Canada-funded study. Andy looks at where New England stands nationally and what impact efforts to rebuild the Atlantic fisheries off the northeast coast of the country are having.

Later in the show, correspondent Elizabeth Wynne Johnson takes us into the colorful world of commercial fisherman poetry. Her piece came to us via the Public Radio Exchange. You can hear her piece and review it by clicking here.

Johnny Cash closes our show tonight with his rendition of the Tom Petty song "I Won't Back Down." It's from the album, "American III: Solitary Man".