On the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, February 2005. Views of the U.S. Pollack Fleet on the Bering Sea as well as the Aleutian Islands as seen from the fishing vessel Auriga.
Leah Sheppard, a fisheries observer who works for Techsea, a firm contracted by the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor compliance with federal and international fisheries regulations is photographed aboard the Seattle Enterprise, a factory troller owned by Trident Seafoods. By-catch and sustainability are important issues to the North Pacific Pollack industry and the agencies which regulate it.
