News Summary April 13, 2017
Today's Main Story: Gulf Snow Crab Quota Even Higher Than Expected, Set at Nearly 44,000 Tons
Today’s main story focuses on how the snow crab supply picture from Atlantic Canada is coming into better focus. The Canadian DFO announced that the quota in the Southern Gulf, which was 21,725 tons last year, will more than double to 43,822 tons this year. Combined with the Newfoundland quota of 35,419 tons, total Canadian harvests from the two primary producing areas will total 79,241 tons of crab or nearly 175 million pounds of live crab if the entire quota is caught.
In other news, we post an opinion piece regarding The Coastal Conservation Association of N.C. which (it is written) appears to find much joy in destroying families and livelihoods of North Carolina commercial fishing communities, in which gill nets play a major
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