Commercial Dungeness crab fall season will have normal length
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August 25, 2022
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced last Thursday that the commercial Dungeness crab fall season in Southeast Alaska will have a normal length.
The length of the fall season was determined after an analysis revealed that an above-average proportion of male legal-sized soft-shelled Dungeness crabs discarded in the first week of the summer season contributed to the full season harvest projection failing to meet the management plan threshold according to Region I Lead Shellfish Biologist Joe Stratman.
The full season harvest estimate, calculated after the first week of the summer...
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