Even with Higher Quality, Sitka Sac Roe Herring Meets a Challenging Market
SEAFOODNEWS.COM By Peggy Parker - March 20, 2015
“Three, two, one …… the herring roe fishery is open.”
With a countdown similar to a rocket launch, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened the Sitka herring roe season by radio broadcast for three hours on Wednesday. But that’s where the similarity of past years’ highly competitive fishery ends.
Sitka’s fleet of 50 herring permit holders agreed with processors early on to have a controlled or cooperative ...
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