Alaska's commercial fishing industry will be "open for business" again starting on January 1, when harvesters begin catching their quota of 305.5 million pounds of Pacific cod in the Bering Sea, about a million pounds less than the 2019 quota, proclaims Laine Welch in her latest weekly "Fish Factor" column, published recently in the SitNews.

But it will be the opening of the Alaska pollock season, on Jan. 20, that will really flip the switch for much of the state's seafood processing industry, she said [...]