77% of Tanner Crab Quota and 30% of Snow Crab Quota Now Landed in the Bering Sea
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - January 29, 2018
The Trident Seafoods plant in Saint Paul was busy all last week with as many as five big crabbers lined up to deliver tanner (bairdi) and snow (opilio) crab. Deliveries to Akutan and Dutch Harbor began picking up late last week.
As of yesterday, more than 5.4 million pounds of Bering Sea snow crab had been landed out of the annual quota of 18.96 mlbs. About 13.5 million pounds remain to be caught ...
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