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Published: April 3, 2011
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All 36 catcher vessels of the West Coast’s offshore mothership whiting fleet have formed a cooperative to pool their federally allocated shares of whiting.
Pacific whiting is processed both at sea and at traditional land-based plants, where it is converted into fillets and surimi, the basis for imitation crab and similar products popular in Asia.
In the mothership fishery, fishermen deliver their fish at sea directly to mothership processors. The whiting fishery also supports a shore-based fleet that delivers its harvest to shore-based plants, and an at-sea catcher-processor fleet that both harvests and processes whiting at sea.
The catcher-processor fleet has operated under a voluntary co-op since 1997. The Pacific whiting fishery off the West Coast of North America is one of the world's largest fisheries.
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Published: April 3, 2011
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EmailAll 36 catcher vessels of the West Coast’s offshore mothership whiting fleet have formed a cooperative to pool their federally allocated shares of whiting.
Pacific whiting is processed both at sea and at traditional land-based plants, where it is converted into fillets and surimi, the basis for imitation crab and similar products popular in Asia.
In the mothership fishery, fishermen deliver their fish at sea directly to mothership processors. The whiting fishery also supports a shore-based fleet that delivers its harvest to shore-based plants, and an at-sea catcher-processor fleet that both harvests and processes whiting at sea.
The catcher-processor fleet has operated under a voluntary co-op since 1997. The Pacific whiting fishery off the West Coast of North America is one of the world's largest fisheries.
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