2024 Wild Alaska Pollock A Season that began January 20th
Photo: alaskapollock.org
(UNITED STATES, 1/24/2024)
This week, the intrepid men and women of the Bering Sea Wild Alaska Pollock Fishery have once again begun capturing and processing Wild Alaska Pollock in the 2024 A season.
Awaiting the fishermen is a more than 10 million metric ton (that’s more than 22 BILLION pound) biomass that spawns near Dutch Harbor/Unalaska in February and March. Females within that biomass are now developing the precious roe products that, once processed, will be delivered to overseas markets, primarily Korea and Japan. Not to be overlooked is the Gulf of Alaska Wild Alaska Pollock fishery that will be fishing on a separate spawning biomass, mostly in the waters between Kodiak Island and the mainland of Alaska and around the Shumagin Islands. This year’s A season Gulf quota is just over 90,000 mt. Combined, fishermen in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska will catch close to ...
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