“It’s still conservative, but we’re all satisfied,” Wally Pereyra of Arctic Storm Management Group told IntraFish.
The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) approved the allowable biological catch (ABC) on Friday, and the NPFMC approved the amount Monday during a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.
The total allowable catch (TAC) last year was 1.48 million metric tons of pollock, the world’s most-consumed whitefish.
Earlier this fall, the Bottomfish Plan Team, a subordinate of the NPFMC, recommended an ABC of 1.3 million tons. Pereyra, who testified before the SSC on Friday, said council members agreed that recommendation was too low.
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