The new system will require fishers who harvest cod by trawl to be part of designated cooperatives
A closeup view of a Pacific cod is seen in this undated photo. The commercial catch of Pacific cod is the second-largest groundfish harvest in waters off Alaska. A new system assigning cod quota shares to trawlers in the Bering Sea and Aleutians is set to go into effect in January.
The cod-trawling program, to start next January, is the first new fishery quota system started since 2012 in federal waters off Alaska, according to NOAA Fisheries. Pacific cod is harvested by three gear types: longline, which catches fish with hooks arrayed on lines; pot and jig gear, which traps fish; and trawl nets. In the Gulf of Alaska, pot and jig gear dominate the Pacific cod harvest, while longline gear dominates the harvest in the Bering Sea and trawling is the method most used to harvest Pacific cod in the Aleutians, according to NOAA Fisheries.
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