The domestic whitefish supply stands to become more robust as the year progresses, thanks to an about-face by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which in July increased quotas for several key East Coast species.
Most important to the overall supply, if not restaurant menus, was a staggering increase in the Atlantic pollock quota, from 6 million to 36 million pounds. Fishermen had long denied the federal government’s stance that pollock stocks were low, and fresh data from surveys i…
