Adak Has Now Processed 1000 ton of cod, Will Now Get Rest of 5000 ton Cod Set Aside for First time
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - February 22, 2018
For the first time since the remote Alaskan village of Adak became the beneficiary of a conditional Aleutian Island set-aside of 5,000 mt of Pacific cod, the processing facility there will be processing almost 100 percent of it.
Amendment 113 set aside that amount to restore the traditional commerce in the Aleutian Islands, and at the processing plant in Adak, since the plant opened in 1999. The Adak plant is one of only two plants in the area and the only one that processes cod.
The management tool was adopted by the NPFMC in 2016 to mitigate the impact on the Aleutian Islands area from landmark laws rationalizing stocks of pollock, cod, and crab fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Prior to rationalization, cod was...
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