After years of steady harvest growth, the supply of Alaska-origin pollock is expected to decline in 2017 due to a cap on the Alaska Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock harvest and lower stocks in the Gulf of Alaska.
The latest “Alaska Whitefish Market Summary & Outlook,” published by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI), highlights that while pollock stocks in the eastern Bering Sea have been growing, groundfish harvests in Alaska’s BSAI region had reached their ca…