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Old 01-18-2013, 04:44 PM
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Default Pollack or Pollock?

Pollock (or pollack, pronounced the same, pron.: /ˈpɒlək/, and listed first in most UK and US dictionaries) is the common name used for either of the two species of marine fish in the Pollachius genus. Both P. pollachius and P. virens are commonly referred to as pollock. Other names for P. pollachius include the Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lieu jaune, and lythe; while P. virens is sometimes known as Boston blues (distinct from bluefish), coalfish (or coley), silver bills or saithe.

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Old 01-18-2013, 05:24 PM
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Exclamation Re: Pollack or Pollock?

The world’s largest food fishery is on the verge of collapse. Pollock, used to make McDonald’s fish sandwiches, frozen fish sticks, fish and chips, and imitation crabmeat, have had a population decrease of 50 percent since last year.

The dwindling fish populations are largely due to the enormous amounts of fishing being removed from Alaska's Bering Sea. Factory fishing trawlers take over a million tons of pollock out of the ocean each year. The fish cannot reproduce and recover as quickly as they are being fished.

Just as the financial institutions on Wall Street collapsed due to poor oversight and mismanagement-the pollock fishery is on the fast-track to collapse as well. In order to avoid a collapse, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council must take swift and decisive action when they meet in December to reduce catch levels and put pollock back on the path to healthier population levels.

A Billion Dollar Industry

The pollock fishery is a billion-dollar industry. When you have that much money at stake, common sense and environmental concerns get thrown out the window. Each year, fishery managers want to catch large amounts of fish to get to the most profit. They fish and fish, even when science tells them the fish can't keep up and they need to cut back.

Just how much pollock are they catching? Picture this- if the pollock from the 2004 catch were laid end to end they would wrap around the earth more than 38 times. Now, that's a lot of fish sticks! Pollock are being fished excessively and cannot keep up with the pressure.

Of the four Alaska pollock stocks, two are now shut down completely and a third is just a fraction of its former size. Despite the warning signs, including five years in a row of low juvenile survivorship, industry has continued to target the pollock spawning aggregation, taking huge numbers of pregnant females before they release their eggs. This kind of fishing practice only deepens the problem by not allowing pollock to reproduce, grow and mature to reproduce again.

Bering Sea Ecosystem

Scientists and conservationists have warned that unless the Council reduces fishing pressure on pollock, a vital forage species for fur seals, whales, and endangered Steller sea lions, the entire Bering Sea ecosystem could be in jeopardy of collapse. This would prove devastating for the state's commercial fishermen and traditional coastal communities that depend on a healthy ocean for their livelihoods.
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Default Re: Pollack or Pollock?

certainly not sustainable!
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Old 01-21-2013, 08:07 PM
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Default Re: Pollack or Pollock?

Sounds like they are pounding the hell out of them over there. There were some trawlers in the area we were in. Seem the Pollock just like the Cod were coming back but as soon as they make a little progress, we pound them back into oblivion.

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