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Now that the two-hundred-mile fishing limit has been in effect for well over a year, most observers, particularly members of the fishing industry, are giving it poor marks.

Nearly everyone agrees that the limit has stopped foreign overfishing; but it has also burdened U.S. fishermen with poor quota management, it has caused conflict with a formerly friendly fishing neighbor (Canada), and, ironically, it may force the United States to give up some of its richest fishing grounds.