NL Snow Crab Season 2024: Stock Status Concerns in 3K
On Tuesday the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) Science Department provided a technical briefing on the latest stock assessment for snow crab in Newfoundland and Labrador. And while there was no change in the stock status of all assessment divisions, the DFO expressed concerns about a decline in exploitable biomass in 3K.
“The science is not what we had hoped to have seen,” said Trevor Jones, a fleet chair and harvester from 3K. “We recognize there are things that affected the fishery of 2023...
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