Alaska's Snow Crab Quota Now 65% Taken (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] March 3, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – March means even more fisheries are underway out on the grounds. Lots of updates after this
Alaska’s biggest fisheries begin in January and March brings even more boats to the fishing grounds.
Notably, hundreds of boats are geared up for big state waters cod openers this week throughout the Gulf of Alaska. Dock talk pegs the cod price at 35 cents at Kodiak.
Pollock fishing is ongoing in the Gulf and Bering Sea, along with other groundfish fisheries. Crabbing also continues in the Bering Sea – the snow crab fleet has taken 65% of their 61 million pound catch; and about 5 million pounds remain in the 15 million pound Tanner crab catch...
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