NOAA official: Debunked IUU report threatened Alaska's reputation

Now that a controversial paper alleging an estimated 15 percent of Alaska seafood is entering the Japanese market from illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fisheries has been retracted, the US government official who demanded the withdrawal of the report is speaking out.

"Marine Policy did the right thing by retracting an erroneous study that could have undermined the reputation of fisheries which abide by, and are held to, the robust stewardship standards of US fisheries management," Chris Oliver, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, told IntraFish.