November 24, 2017 — The Bristol Bay red king crab season finished up last week when the entire allowable catch was harvested.
“The Bristol Bay Red King Crab fishery went fairly well,” said Miranda Westphal, the area management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Dutch Harbor. “A little slower than we would like to have seen, but they wrapped up with a total catch of 6.59 million pounds. So they caught all of the catch that was available for the season.”
Before the season opened on October 15, ADF&G and the National Marine Fisheries Service completed an analysis of the 2017 NMFS trawl survey results for Bristol Bay red king crab.