Prince William Sound Could Get First Commercial Tanner Crab Fishery Since 1995 (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] May 9, 2017
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Prince William Sound could be closer to a Tanner crab fishery. More after this –
Reopening a commercial Tanner crab fishery at Prince William Sound is the goal of state managers and local communities and surveys this summer could set the stage to drop pots.
“The Board of Fisheries adopted a harvest strategy that we brought forward and it establishes abundance thresholds that could potentially open commercial fisheries depending on how high our abundance estimates are that come from our trawl surveys.”
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