BOSTON (AP) — Fishermen fighting to stay in business after their yellowtail flounder catch was slashed 80 percent got a hand, and tons more fish, from the Northeast’s scallop fleet Thursday.

The New England Fishery Management Council voted to shift nearly half of the yellowtail catch allotted to the scallopers to fishermen who chase cod and other bottom-dwelling groundfish. It amounts to a nearly 70 percent increase in the fishermen’s yellowtail catch this year.