Oregon Crabbers Start Delivering Dungeness to Processors
This year’s Dungeness crab season is already one for the record books, even though the season opened only two days ago. The opening ex-vessel price, according to fishermen, is higher than last year’s average price.
According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, last year’s average price was $3.79 per pound. Fishermen said an agreement reached with at least one of the processors was $4.50 per pound.
Last year’s season was the second-highest on record for Oregon in terms of value, at $93.6 million...
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