SE Alaska Summer Dungeness Crab Season Shortened By Three Weeks
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [KFSK] by Nora Saks - July 5, 2017
The summer season for the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in Southeast Alaska will be three weeks shorter than usual, closing on July 25.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the announcement on June 29, after tallying the harvest from the first seven days of the crab season. The catch from that first week came in at 605,000 pounds.
Joe Stratman is the state lead crab biologist for the Southeast region.
“I would say it’s unprecedented. It’s only the second time we’ve come under threshold and it’s the largest reduction ...
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