State managers closed Southeast’s Dungeness summer fishery two weeks early by emergency order because of low harvest numbers. If there are a lot of soft-shell crab in a shortened summer season, then the fall can go the full two-month length. This year, dock-side sampling indicated 28 percent soft-shell crab, which is enough to allow a full fall season.
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It could end up being the best commercial Dungeness Crab season for a decade in Southeast Alaska. The summer harvest was high and managers are expecting the fall season to be good as well.
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The summer season for the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in Southeast Alaska will be three weeks shorter than usual, closing on July 25th.
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The Petersburg harbor was a hive of activity and excitement in mid-June. Commercial fishermen scrambled to get everything done for the opening of the Southeast Dungeness crab season and salmon purse seine and drift gillnet fisheries.
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