Bristol Bay Red King Crab Fishery Off to a Bumpy Start
The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery is starting off with an abundance of drama, a near stand-down and tales of a drone scandal, and a paucity of male crab which keep getting bigger and bigger without a baby boom in the water and are the biggest on average in the history of the fishery.
The rationalized fleet is going for the lowest amount of red king crab since 1982, a storm is blowing in, permits not issued until the morning of the starting day, and apparently unfounded...
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