Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Big crab news for Kodiak

Alaska crab news has been pretty depressing lately. Now comes something brighter.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game today announced a Tanner crab quota of 5.8 million pounds for Kodiak. That's a huge jump from last season's 1.1 million pounds.

Pass the drawn butter!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

What could go wrong, increase the quota by 500%, don't let stocks build up so we can have 50 million pound seasons. Management has proven themselves inept, if we were smart and organized we would only land 2 million pounds.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, just let them grow old and die. They don't live forever.

Anonymous said...

The data has been showing that this strong recruitment was coming. Glad to see it actually happen. https://www.alaskajournal.com/2021-09-22/fish-factor-huge-tanner-crab-cohort-good-news-gulf-alaska

Anonymous said...

I don't know, I just don't trust the managers anymore, too many fck ups

Anonymous said...

Don't go then.

Anonymous said...

I thought the Kodiak based Trawlers killed all those Tanners????

Anonymous said...

On the Kodiak trawlers, the word is they haven't been hitting crab grounds on the East side as hard, but I haven't seen a study to show it - just rumors.