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It voted to consider tighter restrictions on chum salmon accidentally taken by pollock trawlers, according to an April 10, 2024, Anchorage Daily News story.

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.

The Treasury Department determination that took effect Friday prohibits seafood companies from making any new contracts to import Russian caught pollock, cod, salmon or crab processed in China or elsewhere, according to Alaska Sen. Sullivan.

Unlike big trawlers using nets to catch pollock, cod and flounder, trollers drag lines rigged up with weights, artificial lures and hooks.

Haddock are caught by the same fishers who target other bottom-dwelling groundfish species such as cod, pollock and flounders.