Gulf Tanner Crabs and Dungeness Top the Bering Sea
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Gulf Tanners and Dungies top the Bering Sea.
Westward region crabbers at Kodiak, Chignik and the Alaska Peninsula got a 1.8 million pound boost for bairdi Tanner crab, snow crab’s larger cousin, in a fishery that kicks off in mid-January.
Just over a million pounds goes to Kodiak crabbers who sat out an opener last year. It will be the first fishery at Chignik (200,000 pounds) since 2012 and since 2013 for the South Peninsula (500,000 pounds)...
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