Letters: Story on Bering Sea Cod Left Out the Freezer Longliner Coalition Rationalization Agreements
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Letters] February 27, 2018
To the Editor:
Dear Mr. Sackton:
In your article yesterday [Battle Over Cod Allocations to Fishermen’s Finest Comes to Unalaska City Council] regarding the factory trawler America's Finest, you stated that the catcher vessel trawlers, catcher vessel (pot and longline), and jig fisheries in the Bering Sea Pacific cod fisheries are all unrationalized. This isn't entirely the situation: the Freezer Longline Conservation Cooperative is definitely a form of rationalization.
Since 2006, most of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands area freezer-longliner fleet had been members of ...
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