Attendees at the 23rd annual Groundfish Forum in Rome, Italy, heard Thursday that wild whitefish harvests are expected to slip to 7,078 million metric tons in 2015, down slightly from last years estimated 2014 catch figure of 7,092 million metric tons.
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The Alaska pollock fishery – the largest single source of whitefish – is expected to climb slightly from 3,256 million metric tons in 2014 to 3,385 million in 2015.
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