Petrale sole trawlers found plenty of fish when they plied the waters off the U.S. West Coast in October, but with limited regional markets to absorb harvest volume, smaller deliveries maxed out orders destined for restaurant markets, while the rest wound up in cold storage holdings and will be sold as frozen product after the end of the season.
“People still eat petrale, even though San Francisco turned into a shanty town,” Scott Adams, a plant manager with Hallmark Fisheries in Charleston, Oregon, said. “Places are just boarded up. Sales are good but just limited.”…