Foreword [excerpt] [N]ew Jersey fishermen ... in 1976 voted in favor of the Mid-Atlantic Council. At the time they were trying to get rid of large foreign factory ships that were fishing off the Jersey coast. The Council was part of a much bigger United States Fishery Conservation and Management Act that included a 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone. Arguably, it was only the Zone that New Jersey fishermen wanted in 1976. Their political goal during that period was to protect...