walleye pollock
Americannoun
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Nearly 30,000 Chinook salmon were wasted as bycatch in the Canadian trawl fishery, which was targeting hake and walleye pollock, a new report from Canadian fisheries officials found.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Consider the plight of the walleye pollock — also known as Alaska pollock — one of the region’s most important fisheries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
In December, an analysis of northern fur seal diets published here in Frontiers in Marine Science found that previous studies may have "vastly underestimated" the amount of commercially-valuable walleye pollock consumed by the species.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2021
In turn, warmer water increased the metabolism of large fish such as Pacific cod, walleye pollock and arrowtooth flounder, requiring them to eat more forage fish.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2020
Water temperatures in the Bering Sea, where walleye pollock support one of the world's biggest fisheries, hit 4°C above normal in some regions.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 31, 2019
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