No Bairdi Crab Season in Alaska Especially Hurts Given Recent Rise in Restaurant Sales (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] October 14, 2016
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Crabbers head out for a bleak season and hope for a Tanner turn around – More after this –
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Bering Sea crabbers head out Saturday/October 15 for a bleak season, with catch quotas slashed and no fishing at all for bairdi Tanners.
"It’s going to be a tough year economically. We’ll likely see record prices for our crab bu the quantity is so low it won’t make up for the low quotas."
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