Kodiak Gets No Tanners for 2021; Wraps Best Dungie Season in 3 Decades
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch.
There was some slim hope that a small Tanner crab fishery could occur in January for westward region crabbers, which includes Kodiak, Chignik and the South Peninsula.
The summer survey indicated there might be enough mature male crabs to sustain a 2021 fishery. But after crunching all the data, it was not meant to be. Crabbers are in a gap year between a 2013 Tanner year class that’s pretty much tapped out while awaiting a 2018 cohort that’s...
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