Industry stuck with sardine survey data; P-cod vying with big Barents Sea quota

摘要

The Pacific Fishery Management Council's decision to reduce the sardine harvest quota from 2012's 94,000 metric tons to 66,495 metric tons spot-lights problems the industry has with the acoustical and aerial survey data used to determine biomass for 2013. "It took a major tumble," says Diane Pleschner-Steele, executive director of the California Wetfish Producers Association, in Buellton, Calif.