Downturn Expected for Gulf of Alaska's Pollock and Cod Production (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] December 1, 2016
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Cuts are in store for the Gulf’s biggest groundfish catches. More after this --
We reported this week that most Bering Sea fish stocks are booming, but that’s not the case the Gulf.
“Overall, about a 20 percent decrease. If you take all of the ABCs and sum them across all species the whole thing is done by about 60,000 tons. That 60,000 just about equates to the decrease in pollock and p- cod with about 50,000 of it coming from pollock and 10,000 from p cod.”
Jim Armstrong is the North Pacific Council’s Plan Coordinator for Gulf of Alaska groundfish, where nearly 130 different fish are managed when various complexes, like rockfish, are broken out. Pollock catches for this year were increased by 30 percent, but that’s not the case moving forward...
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