The state Board of Fisheries' decision last month to move the Southeast commercial shrimp pot fishery from a fall start to spring means there will be no harvest this year.
The Department of Fish and Game told the board that a spring harvest could help build up the region's shrimp stocks, which are in decline, by taking fewer egg-laden shrimp than in the fall.
Wrangell shrimpers, however, are questioning the wisdom of the switch, which they said could hurt marketing efforts and reduce the value of the catch - with no clear benefit to the resource.
"It probably took a lot of fishermen by surpris...
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