Article: PACIFIC SARDINES.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)

Demand is high, stock is healthy, but dock price could use a bump

"Stable" is the word John Car uses to describe the sardine fishery off Southern California in late winter. The term could well be applied to the coastwide fishery as a whole, which, after rising from the ashes of a decades-long down cycle in the mid-1990s, has leveled off at an annual catch well over 50,000 tons.

Car is general manager of TriMarine International, a San Pedro buyer of sardines as well as squid, tuna, and other species, and he reports stability in the market outlook as well. In fact, the picture Car and other buyers paint is fairly unusual: Abundance is high; demand is ...

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