Huge increase in pollock biomass found in 2014 trawl surveys, TAC likely unaffected
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - Sept. 25, 2014
At the Groundfish Plan team meeting in Seattle this week, NOAA scientists announced that this years trawl and acoustic surveys showed the second highest pollock biomass ever recorded in the history of NOAA stock surveys. The biomass was the highest since that seen in 1982, 33 years ago.
The Scientists from NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle conducted two surveys this summer that are regularly used in stock assessment: a bottom trawl survey and an acoustic survey...
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