Pollock fisheries groups shared some of the methods they have been using to prevent the accidental taking of bycatch salmon to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council’s Advisory Committee on Thursday.
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“You can see if salmon were being discarded so you know that the salmon accounting that’s happening at a plant where 100% of them are counted is 100%,” Advisory Committee member Chelsae Radell said. “The last component that we’re working on is to continue to apply and refine excluded devices and see if we can get more salmon out of the net after they’ve already been captured,” said Austin Estabrooks, a natural resource analyst with the At-Sea Processors Association.
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