The U.S. monkfish fishery is managed in two units — from Cape Cod, Mass., north to the Canadian border and from Cape Cod south to North Carolina. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), “Based on the results of the 2010 stock assessment, monkfish biomass estimates in both the northern and southern management areas are well above target levels.”
Yet several retailers are discontinuing monkfish. In November, Seattle’s Pike Place Fish Co. withdrew its long-popular display …
