9/19/2023 0 Comments Big flat fish![]() ![]() They include both “catcher boats”, of 60-90 feet (~20-30m) that deliver fresh fish to processors on shore, and larger “catcher-processors” of 110-270 (~35-80m) that head, gut and freeze the fish on board.Īs flatfish are bottom dwellers, the boats use bottom trawling. The certified flatfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska target five species: flathead sole, arrowtooth flounder, rex sole, northern rock sole and southern rock sole. Pacific Ocean perch and yellowfin sole stocks were apparently overfished, resulting in a collapse of some stocks that are currently being or have been rebuilt. In the 1950s and 1960s, large-scale trawling by foreign fishing vessels occurred throughout the region targeting mainly Pacific Ocean perch, flounders and Pacific cod. ![]() After World War Two, the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea was fished intensively for various bottom fish species by the Japanese and others. ![]()
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