Pacific Whiting Season Closes on a Good Season; 2018 Outlook is Mixed
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers and John Sackton - December 15, 2017
The 2017 Pacific whiting season improved over 2016, with higher landings, bigger fish and improved markets, but the preliminary biomass estimate for 2018 is down.
The U.S. mothership sector caught close to as much hake as it did last year, harvesting 66,421 mt through Dec. 14. That's only 69 percent of the 96,884 mt mothership allocation but higher than 2016 landings of 65,035 mt.
One mothership was absent this year, U.S. representatives said ...
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