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Article: Despite concerns of stock decline, pollock allocation unchanged for '92.
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- February 1, 1992
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Bering Sea pollock trawlers will fish on a 1.3 million-metric-ton quota in 1992, the same allocation made in 1991, despite indications that the biomass is in a slight decline, which makes everybody a little nervous. That allocation for the nation's premiere industrial food fishery, along with others for all groundfish in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, was made at the December meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in Anchorage.
A move to cut the allocation for 1992 to 1.1 million m.t. instead of 1.3 million m.t. grew from recommendations by the industry advisory panel and the views of several on the council who fear more dramatic stock ...