Bering Sea Crab a Go for Red Kings, Tanners, Snow Crab
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Bering Sea crabbers can drop pots in three fisheries.
Bering Sea crabbers will drop pots for king crab, snow crab and bairdi Tanners when the fisheries get underway on October 15. The Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game announced the catch quotas late Friday.
As expected, the catch was reduced for red king crab taken in the eastern Bering Sea waters of Bristol Bay – just 2.648 million pounds is a 30 percent drop from the 3.8 million pounds taken last season...
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