Alaska Fish Radio: Alaska Fishing Updates for January 2021
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – The nation’s biggest fishery gets underway next week.
There’s lots of fishing going on throughout the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea.
January 1 saw the start of cod and other groundfish fisheries and the nation’s biggest catch – Alaska pollock – gets underway on January 20. Over three billion pounds will come out of the Bering Sea.
Gulf fishermen, however, have chosen to delay their pollock start to February 4 in hopes of higher-quality, schooled up fish. That will add another...
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