Deep-skin Alaska pollock block production has ramped in recent weeks as producers scramble to fulfill high-priority contracts for the A fishing season, where overall production has been hampered by COVID outbreaks at major inshore plants and aboard factory trawlers.
An executive with one large catcher-processor fishing pollock in Alaska told IntraFish while pinbone-out (PBO) fillet production remains "way behind," deep-skin customers have made their orders known quickly.
