The state is again extending the snow crab season due to persistent sea ice limiting the fleet's access to fishing grounds.
The season now will be open through June 15, says this press release from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The industry had a quota of 88.9 million pounds, and 23 percent of this remains unharvested, the department says.
Perhaps nature is saying that 23% of the quota can't afford to be harvested.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, OR the ice is further South than usual, probably interfering with your Global warming theory also.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, if the fishery were a derby the quota would have already been harvested and you wouldn't have 50-60 boats trying to harvest more pounds than they are capable of, sea ice or not. Unfortunately, some of our owners in Hawaii may not be able to invest in their third or fourth homes if their crab isn't caught. Oh, well.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Fish and Game just ought to shut it down. Aren't the females full of eggs by now? If they are, it becomes inhuman to handle any type of natural resource in a delicate state. How would you like your pregnant wife manhandled and thrown around? The fishers can cut their losses on their Income Taxes and eat canned tuna and noodles like the rest of us next winter.
ReplyDeleteAbout time to shut the season down.
ReplyDeleteDitto.
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