Fishing Update, October 2019
Fall means crabbing and dive fisheries along with ongoing catches of cod, pollock, flounders, rockfish and other groundfish across Alaska.
The Bering Sea crab fisheries got underway yesterday, October 15, for red king crab and snow crab. A handful of boats also has been pulling up golden king crab along the Aleutians since August.
In Southeast, some regions already are closed for big spot shrimp which opened October 1. Shrimpers can haul up nearly half a million pounds of spots in their pots this fall.
The Panhandle’s fall Dungeness crab fishery also got underway...
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