Russia’s ‘B’ season for pollock harvesting in the Bering Sea kicked off this week, with researchers expecting full use of the season's quotas and larger-sized fish good for fillet production.
Harvesting began in the North Okhotsk Sea on Oct. 16, with the West Kamchatka and Kamchatka-Kuril subareas to start on Nov. 2.
There are around 115,000 metric tons of pollock left to be caught by Dec. 31 in the quota year, including 14,600 metric tons in the North Okhotsk Sea and more than 100,000 metric tons off West Kamchatka, according to Russia’s federal fishery agency, Rosrybolovstvo.
