In Their Own Words: Sablefish Gear Switching in the West Coast Trawl Program, Part 3
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - October 25, 2017
Since the inception of the West Coast groundfish trawl catch shares program in 2011, using pots or longlines to catch valuable sablefish using trawl quota has been controversial. Allowing gear switching was a provision of the program from the very beginning.
Seafood News has run the perspectives of three trawl program participants so far this week. On Monday, Seafood News ran some deeper background on the issue and the perspective of Jeff Lackey, ...
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