In Their Own Words: West Coast Sablefish Gear Switching Part 2
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - October 24, 2017
Gear switching -- using pots or longlines to catch sablefish using trawl quota -- has been a part of the West Coast groundfish trawl catch shares program since it was implemented in 2011. That provision is also the most controversial, for various reasons.
Fishermen and processors from different parts of the coast have diverse reasons for wanting to retain, modify or eliminate gear switching as the whole individual fishing quota (IFQ) program goes through it's first five-year review. When it comes to valuable groundfish species, ...
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