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There is still resistance to pollock product purchases 
by some large U.S. distributors and retailers. Some carry-out 
restaurant chains featured cod on their menus in spite of the 
high product cost. However, some chains may be forced to offer 
a more competitively priced product to their customers as cod 
prices rise. 
Management controls 
Domestic 
Although much information on the kinds and quantities of 
fish and shellfish occurring in the Bering Sea and northeast 
Pacific is available from research cruises and from records 
of domestic and foreign fishing operations, large knowledge 
gaps still exist. This is particularly true of fisheries 
development which requires answers to specific questions such 
as anticipated catch rates for individual species or for 
particular subareas or times of year. To adequately answer 
these questions will probably require that production fishing 
trials be carried out from chartered commercial vessels in 
the areas or times of particular interest. 
In many instances, the development of U.S. fisheries is 
handicapped by depleted resources. Depletion usually has oc- 
curred from overfishing by foreign fleets. This situation 
has been aggravated by the many countries fishing in the 
Bering Sea and northeast Pacific and by the absence of a 
suitable management effort to cope with the problem. 
Effects of depleting U.S. coastal fish resources are 
readily apparent, especially when they lead to elimination of 
fisheries. This has occurred with Pacific Ocean perch off 
Oregon, which formerly supported a profitable fishery for 
U.S. trawlers. Most of the reduction in size of the Oregon 
stocks occurred within the first few years after the initial 
expansion of Soviet and Japanese trawling to those waters. 
Both the Soviet Union and Japan subsequently agreed not to 
conduct purposeful fisheries for Pacific Ocean perch off 
Oregon and Washington. However, this has not resulted ina 
resumption of the U.S. fishery because the incidental catches 
taken by Soviet and Japanese vessels while fishing for other 
species have been large enough to prevent rebuilding of the 
Pacific Ocean perch stocks. 
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