Crab seasons starts to wrap up

Monday, November 29 2010

Unalaska, AK – It's the end of November, and the season for Bristol Bay red king crab is now 97% complete. Just under 13 million pounds have been harvested, and about 400,000 pounds remain. The total allowable catch, including the CDQ quota, is 14.8 million pounds.

There have been 210 deliveries made by 64 boats. Now, only 12 vessels are still fishing.

Assistant Area Shellfish Biologist Jeanette Alas says the season has kept pace, and been mostly uneventful.

"It was a pretty standard seas," she says.

The season started off on October 15, and will officially end on January 15.



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