Portion of Oregon Opens to Negotiated $3 Per Pound Crab Price
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - December 14, 2016
The 2016-17 Oregon Dungeness crab season is ready to go with a state-supervised negotiated price of $3 per pound to the boats. Crabbers can start setting gear Thursday, Dec. 15, south of Cape Blanco and begin delivering Sunday, Dec. 18, into Brookings or Port Orford.
Fishermen and processors met all day Monday in Newport to come to the agreement. The agreement is expected to be approved by Oregon Department of Agriculture Acting Director Lisa Hanson, according to a press release from the ODA.
The ODA-supervised negotiations, which involved representatives from five seafood processors and four marketing associations from Brookings to Astoria, agreed to continue season opening price negotiations for the rest of the coast when state managers ...
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