The Bristol Bay red king crab quota is 2.68 million pounds, a 16 percent increase from last season.
The Bering Sea snow crab quota is 9.3 million pounds, up 97 percent.
The Bering Sea bairdi Tanner crab quota is 11.25 million pounds, a 79 percent increase.
The season opens at noon Oct. 15, with the fleet expected to first go after Bristol Bay red king crab.
Deckboss is advised the federal government shutdown is not expected to delay issuance of individual fishing quotas for crabbers.
Catch every last one of them, whatever hasn't been dragged up yet.
ReplyDeleteLol. Did you know who has the most discard mortality out of any sector? Hint, it's not the draggers....
Delete1:29 LOL are you referring to the nonsense report that says the crab discards from pots are dead? It's no wonder the fisheries are in a mess with fools running around making bogus claims.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, that nonsense report that uses science to prove that some percentage of crabs die after being stomped on and frozen to death on deck in the middle of winter. But yeah, it's the unobserved mortality that's the problem.
Delete1:29 Did you know who has the most unobserved crab mortality out of any sector? Hint its the boats that use trawl gear
ReplyDeleteI am not fan but if the trawlers are killing all the crabs during molting and mating, then how did they come back so fast and strong. If they were that bad, the crabs would have never come back.....Right
ReplyDeleteNOAA doesn't actually know what is going on, the surveys are not accurate. The quota limits are pure speculation. If they knew what was going on we wouldn't have so many fisheries in decline.
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