The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, as expected, voted Monday to raise the quota based on the recommendation of its scientific committee, which said stocks are rebounding from the low numbers reported the last few years.
"We finally got some fish to sell. I'm starting to feel like a salesman again instead of someone who has to say, 'Gee, I'm sorry, I don’t have anything again,'" Merle Knapp of Seattle-based Glacier Fish Co. told IntraFish.
Of the total 1.27 million metric tons, 10 percent goes to the six Community Development Quota groups.
