Catch		Product Value
Percentage of catch in the Alaska groundfish fishery by species (left) and by product value (right) for the year 2010.

During 2010, pollock made up 55.8% of the total groundfish catch off Alaska.  The pollock catch for 2010 was 888,520 metric tons (t), up approximately 3.7% from 2009.

The 2010 catch of flatfish, which includes yellowfin sole, rock sole and arrowtooth flounder, was 291,790 t or 18.3% of the total 2010 Alaska groundfish catch, up about 8.4% from 2009.

Pacific cod accounted for 250,320 t or 15.7% of the total 2010 Alaska groundfish catch.  The Pacific cod catch was up about 9.5% from a year earlier.

Other important species (% of total 2010 catch and % change from 2009) are:  Atka mackerel (4.5%, down 5.3%),
sablefish (0.7%, down 9.3%), and rockfish (3.1%, up 15.7%).