Saw on the news tonight that the state of alaska has cancelled the season of King crabs and also snow crabs. Never could afford the king crabs but the snow crabs is going to hurt.
I guess that there will be no more"Deadliest Catch".

bad news for some alaskan fishermen...

Bad news for fishermen through the supply chain to the consumer. Wonder how many millions of dollars this will remove from the economy?

At $50/$60 a leg,,they might as well cancel King Crabs all together, that's stupid.

Leftlane can rest easy now, no more buffet crab legs .

There ya go, no value? The fisherman gets the lowest price on product.

The resource is the ultimate concern, not your price to eat it. Secondary is the industry built around the resource, not your price at the plate. Thirdly is your price at the plate, which you may or may not choose to pay. You have little skin in the game, sir.

Sad. I feel sorry for alaska fishermen. Crab legs will still be available from Canada, norway, russia. I've never visited alaska but I know that many ports and the allusian islands depend on crabs. I will suffer because it's my favorite food but can't afford it.
The cannery workers and crabbing boats have my sympathy because they will be jobless.

Then show some concern to the working men and women of this industry, who will pay a higher price than your table craving or budget.

Yup, very bad news.......the earths food resources are being depleted. There is more farm raised fish for sale than wild caught fish.....farm raised fish is not good for you.

That was my point #1.

What? I've showed concern and paid the outrageous price for the last 3 years. Availability will be the issue, not the cost.
Don't look like the alaskan fishermen will be working at all in the crab fishery.

Belly up to more foreign caught crab.

ADF&G manages the crab, and the salmon.

https://www.kinyradio.com/news/news...ng-snow-crab-king-crab-seasons-canceled/

What's your point?
I would gladly pay more for domestic product. It doesn't look like domestic crab legs will be an option.
Your link proved my point.

Well, you won’t be getting domestic product.

A multimillion dollar industry will come to a grinding halt. ADF&G let them rape and pillage, until now.

I think that is exactly what I stated .

Oh, then you won.

I don't want to win.
I want crab legs.

Meh, we are all in the same boat, eh?

mad mike,,,you seem knowledgeable on crab fishing. they say a harvest of tanner crabs will continue. what are they? thanks.

SEAK has had a seasonal Tanner fishery, mid winter. It was never near the volume of pounds produced by the fleet in the Bering fishery. I hope the survey results don’t curtail this harvest also.
I fished hand troll and power troll with my family in the 80’s then moved to crew in the early 90’s in crab and long lining in SE. I regularly do personal use and sport fishing and with no reservation can say our stocks are plummeting. There is still some stock in the SE Region, but it’s hard to trust ADF&G when their baseline escapement numbers are wrong, by them admittedly, for decades.