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By Dan Rudy 

Crabbers seek otter relief, BoF rejects crab plan repeal

 

January 18, 2018



After deliberation on Saturday the Alaska Board of Fisheries rejected a proposal to scrap the Southeast Alaska management plan for Dungeness crab fisheries.

The BoF is currently convened in Sitka for its meeting on the region’s shellfish and finfish regulation change proposals. It meets every three years, the last one being held in Wrangell in January 2015. Starting its shellfish meeting on January 11, members took testimony for 155 different proposals related to crab, shrimp and other miscellaneous shellfish.

A late comer to this year’s slate of proposals, Proposal 235 had been put for...



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