A crewman hoses pollock into the hold of the 191-foot trawler Aurora. Alaskan pollock is America’s largest fishery, one of many employing an individual quota system that a new study says is good for fishermen and fish alike. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The Alaskan king crab fishery switched to individual fishing quotas several years ago. Here, a crab boat heads into Dutch Harbor, America’s biggest seafood port, after dropping crab pots into the Bering Sea. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Crabbers load crab pots onto a boat on the wharf at Dutch Harbor. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Ryan Olsen guides a trawl net onto a giant reel aboard the Western Dawn, a 122-foot trawler that fishes for pollock in the Bering Sea. This vessel supplies fish for a mother ship, a floating processor that makes fillets and surimi. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A crewman hoses pollock into the hold of the trawler Aurora. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A crab boat docks at the Alyeska Seafoods processing plant in Dutch Harbor. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
