Trawl Industry on West Coast Brings Rockfish to Market while Avoiding Salmon Bycatch
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - February 8, 2018
Two pilot programs in the West Coast groundfish industry have proven effective at harvesting valuable rockfish while avoiding bycatch of salmon species.
The annual catch limits (ACLs) for several rockfish species increase in 2017 as new stock assessments showed they were rebuilt -- and in some cases had not been overfished at all. Regardless, the increase in harvestable rockfish in 2017 and subsequent years could have gone largely untouched without the industry pulling together to ...
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