Processors denied in challenge to Gulf rockfish program – Alaska Dispatch

The rockfish program implemented in 2012 allocated shares of the total harvest  to vessel owners, but did not guarantee processors a share of the harvest, as  the prior pilot program had done. The rockfish program also allocates set  amounts of high-value secondary targets such as sablefish and Pacific cod to  catcher vessels. Four Kodiak processors — Trident Seafoods, Ocean Beauty, Westward Seafoods, and  North Pacific Seafoods — filed suit in January, asking for a guaranteed delivery  of a portion of the harvest each year. http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/December-Issue-2-2012/Processors-denied-in-challenge-to-Gulf-rockfish-program/

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