Russia’s fisheries research institutes approved an increase in the country’s total allowable catch (TAC) of pollock and cod for 2021, potentially placing significantly more whitefish on global markets.
The pollock quota proposal for next year's season was set at 1.97 million metric tons, up 8 percent from the 2020 level.
Should Russia's fisheries agency, Rosrybolovstvo, approve the recommendations, it would be the third consecutive year of increases in Russia’s pollock quota; the TAC was lifted 1.6
