Proposal 243 — which was developed over several BOF cycles through collaboration between ADF&G and permit holders — asks for major changes to the Southeast Alaska Red King Crab Management Plan.
The 200,000-pound GHL threshold currently required before the commercial red crab fishery can be opened is an economic threshold, ADF&G Regional Shellfish Biologist Adam Messmer told the Pilot.
“Processors said they couldn’t make any money if we fished under that amount,” said Messmer, and the level “was set years ago when red king crab was not worth as much as it is today.”
Proposal 243 asks, instead,...
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