GDT: Pollock Numbers Spark Industry Outrage

From the Gloucester Daily Times:
NMFS: Cut pollock catch by 67 percent
Numbers in new system spark industry outrage

Sector fishery cooperatives, the linchpin of federal plans to protect wild fish stocks in New England, could collapse under new catch restrictions for one of the ocean's more unpredictable species, members of the industry working on the system say.

Pollock, the low-profile relative of cod often consumed anonymously in breaded cutlets and fish sticks, is dangerously overfished in the northwest Atlantic, federal scientists say, and needs to be protected with sudden, large-scale catch reductions.

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