First settlers of Maine drying and salting fish on the Atlantic shore. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Dories racing for a school of fish, Atlantic Ocean, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Cod fishermen drying and salting fish on the Newfoundland coast, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Fishermen in a dory on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

North Atlantic cod-fishing in the 1880s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Salmon cannery on the Pacific coast at Astoria, Oregon, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Cod fishermen in a small boat off the New England coast. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Lobstermen hauling traps off the coast of Maine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Cod specimen collected at Eastport, Maine, by the US Fish Commission, 1872. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

The way the Indians fished, using spears and dugout canoes, Virginia Colony, 1500s Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Chinese-Americans working at the Kinney Salmon Cannery in Astoria, Oregon, 1880s. Engraving of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

World map of the flat earth printed by Beatus Rhenanus Bildaus Rheinau early 1500s - North is left, Mediterranean Sea middle Printed color lithograph reproduction 19th century. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

East Indian divers gathering parls, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

In a Thursday, June 4, 2009 photo, packages of seasoned fish for sale are shown at A-Dong market in Westminster, Calif. State and county authorities are inspecting Asian markets in Southern California to try to weed out the sale of white croaker, which has been contaminated by chemicals released into the Pacific Ocean from the 1950s to the 1970s. The fish is not white croaker, said Lt. Specialist John Fallan of California's Department of Fish and Game, but it can be difficult for consumers to tell the difference. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)[Click image for details ]

Nantucket sleigh-ride in which a longboat is pulled by a harpoon line lodged in a whale. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Jennifer Thomas, foreground, wears a suit of an orange roughy fish as she and members of the Turtle Island Restoration Network rally outside of an Ocean Policy Task Force meeting in San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. The Obama administration on Thursday released the first glimpse of a plan to strengthen the way the nation manages the oceans, coasts and the Great Lakes. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)[Click image for details ]

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, speaks with the Associated Press in Boston Monday, July 20, 2009, after she delivered the keynote address at Coastal Zone 2009, an annual conference of coastal zone scientists, managers, state officials and coastal non-government groups. New pressures being put on the nation's ocean waters, including wind turbines and fish farming, are sparking conflicts with more traditional activities and show the need for better planning. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)[Click image for details ]

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, speaks with the Associated Press in Boston Monday, July 20, 2009, after she delivered the keynote address at Coastal Zone 2009, an annual conference of coastal zone scientists, managers, state officials and coastal non-government groups. New pressures being put on the nation's ocean waters, including wind turbines and fish farming, are sparking conflicts with more traditional activities and show the need for better planning. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)[Click image for details ]

"Trying out" - boiling whale bubber for oil on a whaling ship, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

FILE - In this Jan 2007 file photo, the trawler Black Beauty leaves the Portland Fish Exchange, in Portland, Maine. A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says rising water temperatures are helping drive many of New England's fish populations farther from shore and into deeper water. (AP Photo by Robert F. Bukaty)[Click image for details ]

FILE - In this April 2009 file photo, a commercial fishing boat passes Ram Island Ledge Light, near Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on its way back to Portland Harbor.A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says rising water temperatures are helping drive many of New England's fish populations farther from shore and into deeper water. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, files)[Click image for details ]

FILE - In this Nov., 2003 file photo, flounder are displayed at the Portland Fish Exchange, in Portland, Maine. A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says rising water temperatures are helping drive many of New England's fish populations farther from shore and into deeper water. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, files)[Click image for details ]

South Sea whaling in the 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Whale struck by a harpoon while breaching, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Native Americans around a fire on the Virginia/North Carolina coast, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an illustration from Hariot. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

FILE - In this file photo taken Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, a Filipino fisherman lifts tuna, which is exported to Japan, U.S. and Europe, at the General Santos city port, southern Philippines. Environmentalists want tougher restrictions on the industrial-scale fishing of bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean after new research showed that current measures are failing and will do little to sustain fish stocks in years ahead, a researcher said Thursday, Sep. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)[Click image for details ]

Whalers "cutting in," removing blubber in strips from a dead whale. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Long boat crew harpooning a whale. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustratioin. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken on June 22, 2009, the sun sets down at the Point Vicente Park on the Pacific Ocean in Palos Verdes, Calif. The fight to establish marine reserves off the Southern California coast is planned to come to a head Thursday Oct. 22, 2009 as a panel elicited final information before making a recommendation to the California Fish and Game Commission on one of three hotly debated plans for a Marine Protected Area in the Southern California Bight. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken on June 22, 2009, the sun sets down on the Pacific Ocean in Palos Verdes, Calif. The fight to establish marine reserves off the Southern California coast is planned to come to a head Thursday Oct. 22, 2009 as a panel elicited final information before making a recommendation to the California Fish and Game Commission on one of three hotly debated plans for a Marine Protected Area in the Southern California Bight. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, Sri Lankan fishermen, also known locally as stick fishermen, sit perched on stilts fixed into the ocean floor as they fish in Koggala area, south of Galle, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)[Click image for details ]

Sri Lankan fishermen, also known locally as stick fishermen, sit perched on stilts fixed into the ocean floor as they fish in Koggala area, south of Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, July 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, Sri Lankan fishermen, also known locally as stick fishermen, sit perched on stilts fixed into the ocean floor as they fish in Koggala area, south of Galle, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, Sri Lankan fishermen, also known locally as stick fishermen, at right, sit perched on stilts fixed into the ocean floor, as others fish from an embankment, in Koggala area, south of Galle, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)[Click image for details ]

In a Thursday, June 4, 2009 photo, Shoppers check out rows of iceboxes stacked with seafood at Thuan Phat market in Westminster, Calif. State and county authorities are inspecting Asian markets in Southern California to try to weed out the sale of white croaker, which has been contaminated by chemicals released into the Pacific Ocean from the 1950s to the 1970s. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)[Click image for details ]

In a Thursday, June 4, 2009 photo, Hoang Van Nguyen holds milkfish at Thuan Phat market in Westminster, Calif. State and county authorities are inspecting Asian markets in Southern California to try to weed out the sale of white croaker, which has been contaminated by chemicals released into the Pacific Ocean from the 1950s to the 1970s. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)[Click image for details ]

A woman holds a dish with filled with fish which is her daily payment payment after helping fishermen to pull their nets out of the ocean in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)[Click image for details ]

A woman holds a dish with filled with fish which is her daily payment payment after helping fishermen to pull their nets out of the ocean in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)[Click image for details ]

A woman holds a dish filled with fish which is her daily payment payment after helping fishermen to pull their nets out of the ocean in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)[Click image for details ]

A boy holds a bowl with fish which is his daily payment after helping fishermen to pull their nets out of the ocean in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)[Click image for details ]

Angry whale chasing a harpoon boat. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration. (North Wind Picture Archives via AP Images)[Click image for details ]

Nancy Golden of the American Oceans Campaign, left, Diane Resnick, kneeling, and Susie Exner of the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, prepare for the annual Great American Fish Count off the Anacapa Island off the coast of Southern California, Monday, July 7, 1997. They were among about 50 divers and snorkelers to dock. (AP Photo/Seanna O?Sullivan)[Click image for details ]

The German frigate MV Karlsruhe, sails through the Mama Ngina channel headed to the port of Mombasa, Kenya with seven suspected Somali pirates onboard Monday Nov. 9, 2009. The seven suspected pirates arrived at the port of Mombasa on board a German frigate MV Karlsruhe after they were arrested in Indian Ocean waters as they attempted to hijack a French fishing vessel. EU Naval Force said that seven pirates its forces arrested after an attack late last month on a French fishing vessel had been transferred to Kenyan authority for prosecution "in accordance with the agreement between the EU and Kenya. (AP Photo)[Click image for details ]

Two, blue overalls, of the seven suspected Somali pirates are guarded by Kenyan security officers as they arrived at the port's police station in Mombasa, Kenya, Monday Nov. 9, 2009. The seven suspected pirates arrived at the port of Mombasa on board a German frigate MV Karlsruhe after they were arrested in Indian Ocean waters as they attempted to hijack a French fishing vessel. EU Naval Force said that seven pirates its forces arrested after an attack late last month on a French fishing vessel had been transferred to Kenyan authority for prosecution "in accordance with the agreement between the EU and Kenya. (AP Photo)[Click image for details ]

Some of the seven suspected Somali pirates are guarded by Kenyan security officers as they arrived at the port's police station in Mombasa, Kenya, Monday Nov. 9, 2009. The seven suspected pirates arrived at the port of Mombasa on board a German frigate MV Karlsruhe after they were arrested in Indian Ocean waters as they attempted to hijack a French fishing vessel. EU Naval Force said that seven pirates its forces arrested after an attack late last month on a French fishing vessel had been transferred to Kenyan authority for prosecution "in accordance with the agreement between the EU and Kenya. (AP Photo)[Click image for details ]

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission helicopter flies over the USNS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, sits anchored waiting to be sunk to make an artificial reef, May 27, 2009 near Key West, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15** This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows fishermen pulling a net full of jellyfish out of the ocean off the coast of Kokonogi, Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)[Click image for details ]

A fisherman in a small boat off the Caribbean island of Bonaire is shown Friday, May 22, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)[Click image for details ]

A fisherman in a small boat off the Caribbean island of Bonaire is shown Friday, May 22, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)[Click image for details ]

A fisherman in a small boat off the Caribbean island of Bonaire is shown Friday, May 22, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken Aug. 3, 2009, commercial fishing boats are tied up at their moorings near sunset at Cundy's Harbor, Maine. The 2009 Ecosystem Status Report says the makeup of the ocean waters off the Northeast has been fundamentally altered because of climate change, heavy commercial fishing pressure and a growing population along the coast. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)[Click image for details ]

Patrons prepare their fishing rods on deep sea fishing boat "Sea Queen II" prior to leaving the Ocean Street docks in Hyannis Harbor Oct. 1, 2009 on Cape Cod in Barnstable, Mass. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)[Click image for details ]

In this July 10, 2009 file photo, Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, stands on a dock in the Port of Newport, Ore. Lubchenco is encouraging regional fishing councils to adopt a new management system known as catch share as they work to end overfishing in U.S. ocean waters by 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)[Click image for details ]

In this photo taken Aug. 22, 2009 lobstermen haul their traps during a foggy morning. The 2009 Ecosystem Status Report says the makeup of the ocean waters off the Northeast has been fundamentally altered because of climate change, heavy commercial fishing pressure and a growing population along the coast. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)[Click image for details ]