Copper futures prices topped $1.10 a pound for the first time in five months, as industrial users sought to rebuild stocks.

Cod, halibut and other fisheries have been closed for the last two years to try to rebuild stocks.

Soon after World War II, there was an attempt to rebuild stocks by releasing pen-raised birds hatched from eggs taken from the nests of wild turkeys.

The campaign irked commercial fishermen and some federal regulators, who said it ignored American efforts to rebuild fallen swordfish stocks.

Conservationists say that to arrest decline and rebuild stocks, the swordfish catch should not exceed 10,000 metric tons.

Sea Web doesn't acknowledge that I.C.C.A.T. has now set quotas aimed at rebuilding stocks.

It claims that years of stringent conservation measures have failed to rebuild stocks and that only the total shutdown of these fishing grounds will enable any meaningful recovery.

Among other things, the act requires that government managers end overfishing of threatened species and rebuild overfished stocks within a finite period, usually 10 years.

She said members were also involved in shellfish transplanting programs that were vital to rebuilding stocks.

But fishermen say a plan to rebuild stocks would doom their way of life.