The following letter was sent to IntraFish by Jim Gilmore, director of Public Affairs, At-sea Processors Association, in response to the opinion column "A retraction is not enough" published Wednesday.
I read with great interest today’s editorial on the 2017 Pramod Pitcher paper with its assertions about the presence of IUU Alaska pollock in the Japanese marketplace—assertions that are spurious, unfounded, and damaging to the reputation of seafood products produced from one of the world’s best managed fisheries.
I appreciate your continued pursuit of this story, notwithstanding the stonewalling by the paper’s authors, the foot-dragging of Marine Policy in upholding standards of academic rigor, and most disappointingly, the failure of the Walton Family Foundation, which funded the paper, to move forward with an independent review of the paper.
