After a Tough 2020 of Small Fish and COVID, North Pacific Pollock Fleet Prepares for Winter Season
Skipper Kevin Ganley spent most of the summer and fall pulling a massive trawl net through the Bering Sea in a long slow search for pollock, a staple of McDonald's fish sandwiches. The fish proved very hard to find.
“We just scratched and scratched and scratched," Ganley recalls. “It was survival mode."
Ganley's boat is part of a fleet of largely Washington-based trawlers that have had a difficult year as they joined in North America's largest single-species seafood harvest...
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