Alaska's Board of Fish Cancels Bering Sea Bairdi Crab Fishery in Split Vote (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio] January 19, 2017
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – The Bering Sea Tanner crab fishery gets tanked for this year. More after this –
It was bad news for Bering Sea crabbers when the last hope for a bairdi Tanner fishery was dashed last week. The Board of Fisheries in a split vote decided against opening the fishery which produced 20 million pounds last year. Crab harvests are based on results of summer surveys and for Tanners, the numbers ...
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