The pollock quota for Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands — Alaska's largest fishery — will be 5.2 percent lower than it was last year, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) decided on Friday.
The council agreed on a quota of 1.2 million metric tons — 20,000 metric tons less than the acceptable biological catch (ABC) that the council’s scientific and statistical committee (SSC) decided upon on Wednesday, council plan team member Jim Ianelli told IntraFish.
The council must not exceed the ABC, but it may decide to go below it when taking the needs of harvests of other species into account.
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