This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – The expanded observer program’s first annual report is revealed this week.
The category with the most new coverage and information was the catcher vessel hook and line in the Gulf of Alaska — in that fishery we did see some substantial discards in those fisheries compared to some other gear types — in the skate fisheries, rockfish, shark and halibut discards in the directed halibut fishery in particular – that we didn’t have information on before. Read more here 19:19
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