November 11, 2024
Small Tanner crab fishery will go fast in Kodiak
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In a dwindling fishery that could set a record for speed, Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula fishermen will drop pots for a combined total of 770,000 pounds of Tanner crab when the fishery opens on January 15, 2025.
Of that, 560,000 pounds of Tanners can be taken by Kodiak crabbers with 210,000 pounds coming from the Eastern District of the Alaska Peninsula.
In the January 2024 season, a fleet of 135 Kodiak boats and 31 at the Peninsula pulled up a combined 3.48 million pound quota in just two…
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Laine Welch has covered the Alaska fish beat for print and radio since 1988. She has also worked “behind the counter” at retail and wholesale seafood companies in Kodiak and Cape Cod. Click here to send her an email.
You can read more from Laine at alaskafish.news.
