The NMFS estimates that in 2000, more than 16,000 tons of Chilean seabass were legally caught from an internationally regulated harvest area in the Antarctic Ocean. But more than 32,000 tons may have been taken illegally from those same waters, the fisheries service said.
In 2000, NMFS estimates more than 16K tons of Chilean seadbass were legally caught from an internationally regualted harverst ares in the antarctic Ocean out of which 32K ton may have been illegally taken