Market Name: Pollock, Alaska Pollock,walleye pollock, bigeye cod
Scientific Name: Theragra chalcogramma
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| A member of the cod family, Pollock is the most important groundfish species in the world, producing global catches of 6 million tons per year. Two-thirds of the world's pollock comes from Russia and Asia. Nearly all the rest comes from Alaska. A change in the Russian fishery from supplying domestic markets to supplying international markets has made it the biggest global supplier of pollock. Alaska pollock congregate on the outer shelf and slope of the Bering Sea, between the Eastern Aleutians and Pribiloff Islands, in depths of 200 to 600 ft. Large harvests are also made along the eastern coast of Russia (especially the Sea of Okhotsk, between mainland Russia and the Kamchatka Peninsula) and south to the Sea of Japan. Smaller stocks occur off western Canada and in the Gulf of Alaska. They are harvested by longliners and small trawlers that deliver an iced product to motherships or shoreside processors, and by larger trawlers that process pollock at sea. |
Markets: US - Japan - Spain - Italy - Portugal - Denmark