Alaska's Southeast Dungeness fishery having best season ever with prices near $3 lb (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] July 31, 2014
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch … Lots of fishing going on from one end of Alaska to the other.
With a few exception, most of Alaska’s salmon fisheries are rather lackluster. Statewide the salmon catch has topped 87 million and more than 47 million of those fish are sockeye salmon.
Perhaps the biggest fish story this week is the Dungeness crab fishery in Southeast, which is seeing its best season ever. The total catch this year is pegged at nearly 6.5 million pounds for 150 crabbers who are getting about $3/pound, up 50 cents from last year...
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