The bitterly disputed low pollock allocation — identified by many as certain to strangle the groundfishery and cited by fishermen and their advocates as an example of the harm done by faulty government science — could be reversed soon, a regulatory committee advised Wednesday.
A well-connected fishing group on Cape Cod and the Pew Environment Group both issued press releases saying the decision had been made.
But the government released a statement noting that the advice was "preliminary."
The Groundfish Committee of the New England Fishery Management Council gave an informal "heads-up" that a new assessment of the pollock stock seemed to confirm industry claims of the fish's prevalence in the mix of groundfish in the waters of the northwestern Atlantic.
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