Southeast Alaska Dungeness Fall Season Reduced to One Month
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] - August 16, 2017
Petersburg -- The Dungeness crab season this fall will open October 1 and close at midnight October 31, 2017 rather than the end of November.
ADF&G based their decision on an analysis of the incidence of legal-size male soft-shelled crabs caught early in the summer season, data from port sampling and fish tickets.
The good news was that the proportion of legal-size male soft-shelled Dungeness crabs discarded during the first week of the summer season was above the previous three-year average.
The bad news is that amount is not a contributing factor in failing to meet the 2.25 million pound harvest...
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