Are the quotas set each year for pollock?
Yes. Each year we go through a process where we review the best available new information on status of stocks. Sometimes that new information involves resource assessments that had been completed the previous summer. Sometimes it’s a new modeling approach that the scientists have come up with. All this information is put together by our scientists, presented to the Council, reviewed and from that comes an allowable biological catch recommendations. And those are adjusted further by the Council to develop the quotas. And those adjustments are usually downward or they are the same as ABC and they are never over and above what the scientists feel the best available information supports in terms of a harvest. Do you anticipate that the National Marine Fisheries Service might find some resistance when they start fine-tuning and looking for other impact on wildlife? Sure. I want to state up front that the industry and the Council that we work with are very cognizant of resource conservation.
