Pilot program slows fishing pace, adds marketing flexibility to Alaska product

摘要

The second season under a pilot program to manage rockfish in the central Gulf of Alaska has produced a few optimistic twists for trawlers targeting Pacific Ocean perch and dusky and northern rockfish. The rockfish management program was put into eifect for 2007 and 2008, and then extended by five years to end in 2011. The pilot program awarded rockrish allocations to cooperatives based on the catch histories of the trawlers comprising the cooperatives.