its not in complete crisis mode yet. But they deffinately know something is terribly wrong due to landing reports, they are WAY down in recent years. That old quote from 2006 that "overfishing is not taking place" aint guna cut it nemore.... Just did a paper on it and the effects the trawlers are having on the forage species. here's a press release I used as a cited sources
Some scary numbers in there.......
http://www.asmfc.org/press_releases/...ddendumIII.pdf