The news offers a slight reprieve to the beleaguered fishery beset by low numbers likely exacerbated by climate change.
By Mark Thiessen and Joshua A. Bickel, Associated PressSt. Paul Harbor in Kodiak, Alaska, is shown. Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab, the largest and most lucrative of all the Bering Sea crab species, for the first time in two years.
“The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery for the prior two seasons were closed based on low abundance and particularly low abundance of mature-sized female crabs,” said Mark Stichert, the state department’s ground fish and shellfish management coordinator, While the red king crab have been off limits for two years, the snow crab season was also canceled last year.
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