Bering Sea Crabbers Set to Get the Outlook for 2020/21 Season
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch –
Bering Sea crabbers will soon know what their catches will – or won’t - be for the upcoming season that opens on October 15.
This month the Crab Plan Team, advisers to federal and state fishery managers, will review the stock assessments and other science for Bristol Bay red king crab, bairdi Tanners and snow crab. The data is used to set the annual Total Allowable Catches, or TACs.
But this year, the Covid virus canceled the summer surveys...
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