United Catcher Boats
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United Catcher Boats, UCB- was established to provide a strong, unified voice for the owners of vessels that trawl for groundfish in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and West Coast commercial fisheries. Many of the UCB member vessels also have a long history of fishing Bering Sea crab in addition to their groundfish trawl fisheries.
United Catcher Boats provides an organization for groundfish harvesters in support of rational fisheries management, sustained yields, reduced bycatches, and maintaining their vessels in a competitive industry.
United Catcher Boats advocates governing agencies and organizations (NMFS, NPFMC, PFMC, Alaska Board of Fisheries, the States of Alaska and Washington, and United States Congress) and represent trawl vessel owners concerns and positions regarding fisheries management and policy related issues. To this end, United Catcher Boats provides governing agencies with information that helps them manage their fisheries and implement reasonable policies to govern them. They have a long-standing, professional presence at the North Pacific and Pacific Fishery Management Councils as well as within NMFS.
United Catcher Boats is also the first to provide critical information to their vessel owners such as real time harvest and Seasonal information including fishery openings and closure announcements, quota and bycatch management tracking and assistance, and updated fishery regulations and rule making information at the regional and national levels. Additionally they provide the management responsibilities of the American Fisheries Act catcher vessel pollock cooperatives.
Ocean Leader is Part of the United Catcher Boats Fleet
