Council boxes in pollock fleet on Chinook bycatch issue

摘要

Fleet consolidation, international ill-will, and excluder boom possible. Alaska's billion-dollar pollock industry now faces a tough new imperative: Avoid netting Chinook salmon as bycatch or quit fishing. The order comes from the North Pacific FisheryManagement Council, which in April approved an action to ratchet down bycatch and potentially remove a bull's-eye from the industry's back.