Attendees at the 22nd annual Groundfish Forum in Vienna, Austria, heard Thursday that wild whitefish harvests are expected to slip to just over 7.127 million metric tons in 2014, down slightly from the revised estimated 2013 catch figure of 7.2 million metric tons.

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The Alaska pollock fishery – the largest single source of whitefish – is expected to dip slightly from 3.316 million metric tons in 2013 to 3.256