New England’s Major Groundfish, Except Cod, Enter into MSC Assessment
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton July 7, 2016
New England has often been vilified as having some of the worst overfished species in US waters and has long had a contentious fight over fisheries management.
However, three stocks in New England are fully healthy: haddock, Pollock and redfish. Together the annual catch limit for these stocks totals more than 70,000 tons. Such a success in rebuilding fisheries is often lost in the attention paid to the failure of the Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine cod stocks to recover.
Now a client group led by Atlantic Trawlers of Maine, which is owned by Jim Odlin, and Fishermen’s Wharf in Gloucester, led by Vito Giacalone, have completed the MSC pre-assessment
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