There are several things happening with our fisheries' currently. Part is environmental impact and part of it is overfishing . It's a serious problem worldwide. Trying to accommodate the increasing population of people is going to be hard.If not for the mass production of food through fish farming we would already be in more trouble than we are. And yes this trickles down all the way to our pan fish in rural areas. If my memory is correct Missouri dept. of conservation spends 7 percent of its budget on fishery.We should be spending 40 percent.