Latest Stock Assessment Shows 80% drop in GOA Pacific Cod ABC for 2018
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - November 15, 2017
The Groundfish Plan Team released the most recent version of their stock assessment and the deeper look at the numbers did not improve them. The Pacific cod stocks in the Gulf of Alaska are down to alarming levels, an almost 80% drop from last year. Most of the people crowding into the room had heard the bad news six weeks earlier.
Now the data and modeling had been reviewed, and the earlier calculations turned out to be right. There will be an almost 80% drop in the allowable biological catch (ABC) for Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska...
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