Big Year Classes will boost Pollock Catch in Sea of O., but Western Bering Sea is Overfished
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Eugene Gerden May 15 2015
Moscow - The Russian government is considering designing a package of measures to increase of the volume of pollock and herring catch in the Far East, according to an official spokesman of the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo).
According to Ilya Shestakov, head of Rosrybolovstvo, the government plans to avoid poor pollock fishing during the next several years, as well as the situation of underfishing, i.e. not catching the full quota.
As part of these plans, particular attention will be paid to the conduction of research activities in the industry.
According to Anatoly Smirnov, an official spokesman of the Pacific Scientific Research Fisheries Center, one of Russia’s major research center in the field of fisheries, the current situation with pollock catch in the Okhotsk Sea remains relatively good, which is reflected by the high level of the use of quotas...
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