Bristol Bay Togiak herring catch is latest Alaskan stock expected to improve in 2015 (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] November 19, 2014
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Some bumper harvests ahead for salmon, pollock and herring. More after this
Some big fish predictions are coming in for next year from state and federal managers. For the state’s largest fishery - Alaska pollock - stocks have more than doubled their ten year average to more than 9 million tons, or 20 billion pounds! The pollock stocks are healthy and growing, according to the Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s annual assessments. A catch of 1.3 million tons is recommended for next year, or about 3 Billion pounds. Federal managers will set all groundfish harvests in early December. Alaska pollock represents 40% of global whitefish production.
From pollock to pinks – the state is projecting an “"excellent" catch of 58 million pink salmon next year in Southeast Alaska. That would be well above the 10-year average of 41 million, and would rank among the top 10 harvests since 1960. One caution is warmer than normal water temperatures. In 2006 similar warm conditions resulted in a poor pink return to the Southeast region...
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