Without Completed 2025 Reports, Federal Fishery Managers Use Last Year’s Data to Set Alaska Harvests
Lacking the usual amount of data to guide them, federal fishery managers relied on last year's reports to set the coming year's harvests for the nation's top-volume commercial fish species: Alaska pollock.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the panel that sets harvest levels and other rules for fisheries conducted in federal waters off Alaska, voted on Sunday to keep 2026 pollock catch limits in the Bering Sea at about the same level as this year's...
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