Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Shell-shocked crabbers urge 'bold actions'

Facing a rare and devastating season closure of the lucrative Bristol Bay red king crab fishery, a crabbing organization says the outlook for snow crab isn't good, either.

More in this press release from Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2021 at 2:59 PM

    Whatever NPFMC is doing to manage the fisheries, it is not working.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2021 at 7:02 PM

    Look elsewhere. NPFMC does not manage the BSAI crab fisheries.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2021 at 7:42 AM

    Who manages trawl bycatch of crab and other species in Bering Sea? Not NPFMC?

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2021 at 12:43 PM

    NOAA/NPFMC its all the same thing, a bureaucracy of unelected officials.

    NOAA sets limits and tracks crab bycatch

    https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/akro/car120_psc_bsai_with_cdq2021.html

    NOAA has also been accused of gross mismanagement of King Crab fishing by their own former Scientist scientists

    https://www.peer.org/alaska-red-king-crab-dethroned-by-scientific-fraud/

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