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Commercial crab fishery closed for 2023-2024 season

September 1, 2023 North Pacific

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the commercial red and blue king crab fishery for the 2023-2024 season, the sixth year in a row, citing stock survey numbers that remain well below the regulatory threshold. The announcement made Wednesday is a blow to commercial fishers, who saw a significant drop in prices for chum (dog) and pink (humpback) salmon this year. “If they would open up the crab season for 10-15 days it would help bail us out of a terrible season,” said Norval Nelson, owner and operator of Star of the Sea, which was in Aurora Harbor. He made his comments before he learned of the news. >>click to read<<17:27

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Finding clues to disappearing king crab – This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch

March 13, 2014 North Pacific

Did you know that red king crab are cannibals and eat their babies, but blue king crab do not? Or that deep water golden king crabs are almost indestructible and appear to resist ocean acidification? Those are just a few of the things being studied at the nation’s top king crab lab at Kodiak. Read more here 17:25

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St. Matthew Blue King Crab Fishery Closes Again

October 4, 2013 North Pacific

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is shutting down the St. Matthew blue king crab fishery. This isn’t the first time that St. Matt’s crab has been declared off limits: It was previously shut down for a decade due to overfishing. more@kubc 11:48

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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