Catch		Product Value
Percentage of catch in the Alaska groundfish fishery by species (left) and by product value (right) for the year 2007.

During 2007, pollock made up 71.3% of the average groundfish catch off Alaska.  The pollock catch for 2007 was 1.41 million metric tons (t), down approximately 9.7% from 2006.

The next major species, Pacific cod, accounted for 225,092 t or 11.0% of the total 2007 groundfish catch.  The Pacific cod catch was down about 6.3% from a year earlier.

The 2007 catch of flatfish, which includes yellowfin sole, rock sole, and arrowtooth flounder was 255,931 t, up about 10.6% from 2006.

Other important species are sablefish (0.7%), rockfish (1.9%), and Atka mackerel (2.9%).