Sitka Sound seiners scooped up another 5,610 tons of roe-rich herring in yesterday's opener, the second of the season, the state Department of Fish and Game reports.
That brings the year's total an estimated 10,340 tons, or more than a third of the 28,829-ton quota.
"The plan is to stand down on further fishing until Thursday to allow for processing and tendering capacity to become available for the next harvesting opportunity," the department said this morning.
Why did management let the fishers start fishing before the "processing and tendering" sector are "available"?
ReplyDeleteThe latest opinion from the Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force is "little fish are more valuable when left in the sea".
Such as King Salmon at $16,000.00 a ton?
ReplyDeleteCambell's soup kitchen, where value is always related to a Cora's village of idiots.
Hopefully the fish will spawn before the entire 29,000 ton GHL is reached. Score 1 for the fish!
ReplyDeleteAnyway the herring end up grinded down to fish meal for farmed fish in China, Korea, and Taiwan. You're a fool if you believe these fish are actually being made into Kozonoko.
how can you fish this volume of fish for the price you are being paid? the boats that have hired canadian skippers will go farther backward. from canadian who did not fish his licence.
ReplyDeleteBecause fishermen will always fish when the light is green.
ReplyDeleteWell uniformed first anonymous poster management did not allow the fleet to fish before processing and tendering were available. There are only a certain number of tenders available and there is a maximum amount of fish that can be processed in any given day. The fishery often stands down for 1-2 days at a time between openings to avoid a back log of unprocessed fish. Every effort is made to provide the best quality product to the market.
ReplyDeleteFish and game was spooked by the amount of spawn and didn't want to lose a fishing opportunity before it was too late,some of the permit holders advocated taking less than the total quota but there is still a lot of "who cares what they pay us,I can catch more than you" mentality.Good luck getting %100 of these knotheads to agree on anything.
ReplyDeleteHow do you get a job as a fleet manager in Alaska and how much could I make? And, how much time will I get to spend in Alaska?
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