Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season is delayed after pre-season testing found crabs are too low in meat yield, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced.
Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab for the first time in two years, offering a slight reprieve to the beleaguered fishery beset by low numbers likely exacerbated by climate change. There was no such rebound for snow crab, however, and that fishery will remain closed for a second straight year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday. “Based on survey results from this year, those numbers have improved, some signs of modest optimism in terms of improving abundance in Bristol Bay red king crab overall and that has allowed for a small but still conservative fishery for 2023 as the total population size is still quite low,” he said.
As the world warms, extended spikes in ocean temperatures are triggering the collapse of key marine populations. In the Aleut community of St. Paul, Alaska, the loss of the snow crab fishery is having a profound economic impact and raising questions about the small city’s future.
Oregon commercial crab fishery to open North of Cape Falcon
This area has remained closed to commercial crabbing to coordinate an orderly start with the Washington coastal Dungeness crab fishery. Results from recent domoic acid testing of crab viscera (guts) conducted by the state of Washington indicate that levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid are still elevated in the viscera of crab. Until further notice, all crab harvested from Point Chehalis, Wash. to the Washington/Oregon border will be required to have the viscera (guts) removed by a licensed crab processor prior to sale to ensure that crab going into the market are safe to consume.
represented commercial fishermen for 25 years. the damage here, 41% of the seafood in the united states comes from this coastal region. this is the nursery ground for most of the u.s. crab fishery, for our shrimp fishery, and also for many of the shellfish, for the muscles and the oysters that americans all across the country eat. the contamination in the spill is going to damage not only the seafood and the safety of the seafood, but also the livelihood of the thousands of fisherman and property owners that rely on the coastal wetlands for their livelihoods. the spill at this point looks like it appears to be hitting what really is the worse possible place that it could hit on the gulf coast, which is the heartland of the coastal estuaries. it s probably the most remote