We Screwed Up In Our Report On The Pollock/Chinook Bycatch Issue Yesterday
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - April 10, 2015
At SeafoodNews we pride ourselves as being the news source closest to and most representative of the Alaskan Seafood Industry. That is why we really screwed up publishing an incomplete
story yesterday on the research showing a signfiicant part of the Bering Sea chinook bycatch by the pollock fleet originates in Western Alaska.
The problem is not that the research is wrong; its that the article was incomplete. It was never intended to be a stand alone story, but instead part of a larger piece highlighting what we think is the most significant fact: the amazing progress the pollock fleet has made in reducing chinook bycatch since a 47,600 fish cap, with some flexibility, was instituted in 2011.
Since this action, actual bycatch by the pollock fleet has been between 11,000 and 15,000 fish for the past three years.
The council is voting today on additional options to further reduce bycatch, even though all parties agree that the bycatch issue is far less important to the decline of chinook ...
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