Board of Fish proposal wants red king crab in Southeast's highest abundance area to be exclusively for personal use

A proposal coming before the Board of Fish in January, if adopted, would make it almost impossible under the current management plan to ever reopen the Southeast Alaska commercial red king crab fishery.

Proposal 242 - put forward by Territorial Sportsmen, Inc of Juneau - seeks to allocate 100% of the red king crab available for harvest in Section 11-A to the personal use fishery.

Section 11-A accounts for around a quarter of all the mature red king crab biomass available in Southeast Alaska according to ADF&G's 2024 Red King Crab Stock Assessment, and, while stocks are considered unhealthy acr...