Thursday, October 5, 2017

Snow crab cut 12 percent

This season's Bering Sea snow crab quota is 18.96 million pounds, down 12 percent from last season.

The fishery opens at noon Oct. 15, but the industry typically waits until after the first of the year to take snow crab.

Fishery managers also have set a modest quota of 2.5 million pounds for Bering Sea bairdi Tanner crab. The bairdi fishery was closed last season.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 6, 2017 at 5:12 AM

    Have any ideas been put forward on what is going on with the crab fisheries? Two big cuts is concerning.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 9, 2017 at 1:55 PM

    Mother nature, global warming, over fishing... lots of theories but nobody knows for sure. Red king crab went from huge fishery to non existent over night back in "81"

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  3. AnonymousOctober 11, 2017 at 3:27 AM

    But they told us individual quotas were going to stabilize the fisheries!!!

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  4. AnonymousOctober 11, 2017 at 5:25 AM

    Crab has always been notoriously cyclic. Biologists know very little about the cause, or what triggers the boom and bust. They'll be back. I would also point out that quotas are based on surveys which relies on the surveyors to successfully find a biomass or crab. Anyone who watches "Deadliest Catch" knows that even professionals struggle to do this at times.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 11, 2017 at 3:22 PM

    So its Deadliest Catch's fault?

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