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Alaska commercial fishing news and notes
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- Deckboss
- I'm a journalist covering Alaska's commercial fishing industry. My real name is Wesley Loy. Reach me at wloy61@gmail.com.
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- Juneau watch
- ASMI hails federal funds for international marketing
- An update on Board of Fisheries appointments
- Board of Fisheries to hold special meeting Friday
- A second commissioner for CFEC
- Oregon's new man on the North Pacific Council
- Juneau watch
- Expect a smaller salmon catch this year
- Three in line for seats on Board of Fisheries
- 'Increasingly unpredictable and unstable'
- USDA Office of Seafood established
- The Magnuson-Stevens Act at 50
- It's showtime in Kodiak
- Suit targets pollock trawlers as threat to fur seals
- Trident sues over Tacoma fire disaster
- Are you a wanted fisherman?
- Board of Fisheries sued over Area M action
- Coast Guard seizes 'unreported' pollock roe
- Five hoisted from distressed boat in Aleutians
- A big boost for Southeast Alaska trollers
- 'Be cautious about demonizing'
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8 comments:
Makes you wonder how many tons of product slipped by without being recorded over the years? Here the factory trawlers are telling us what great stewards of the resources they are and this comes to light.
I really hope the fines are significant and they are seen for what they are.
American Seafoods is calling it "a paperwork discrepancy, not a violation."
https://www.scribd.com/document/1023351090/American-Seafoods-press-release
Seems like paperwork discrepancies always result in corporations making more money than they are entitled to.
so what is the total harvest of polluck over, not just roe!?! How much over are they on that!
2:53. Yes that is the question that needs an answered.
Assuming the press release is accurate, the daily production estimates were off by less than .2%, but the unload measurement that counts is at the end of the trip. Same as other fisheries.
When we go longlining, we write the equivalent of a 'daily production estimate' in our logbooks too. But the weight that counts is done at the plant at the end of the trip. If there's a difference between the logbook and the fish ticket, that doesn't mean someone cheated, it's just a difference in methodology, with the end-of-trip scale weight at the dock being the more accurate and official weight.
I'd be slow to pass judgement on this one until the full details are known...
Roe is a secondary product and is not used to determine the amount of fish that were harvested (think salmon). The main reason this is an issue at all is that processed roe adds to the wholesale value of the harvest, and accurate estimates of both ex-vessel and wholesale value of fisheries are used in policy and regulatory issues.
Here's an interesting update from Anchorage television station KTUU:
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/04/22/coast-guard-removes-release-social-media-posts-65k-alaska-roe-seizure/
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