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Tail End of Big Crab Cohort Prompts Lower GHL for Kodiak Tanner Crab Fishery
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Tail End of Big Crab Cohort Prompts Lower GHL for Kodiak Tanner Crab Fishery

Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists have set a guideline harvest of 560,000 Tanner crab for the 2025 season, down significantly from 2024. Based on 2024 Kodiak District survey results, the Eastside and Southeast sections exceeded regulatory thresholds necessary for a 2025 commercial Tanner crab season, agency officials said. The Kodiak District commercial Tanner crab season is scheduled to open at noon on Jan.15, unless delayed by inclement weather.  Since the guideline harvest level is less than 5,000,000 pounds, the regulatory pot limit is 20 pots per vessel. The Chignik District is to remain closed for the 2025 season. ADF&G said that abundance must be sufficient to provide for a minimum GHL of 200,000 pounds before a commercial Tanner crab fishery may occur. ...
Tanner Crab Commercial Fishery Opens for Kodiak, South Alaska Peninsula
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Tanner Crab Commercial Fishery Opens for Kodiak, South Alaska Peninsula

Commercial fishing for Tanner crab at Kodiak and Alaska’s South Peninsula opened Monday, Jan. 15, after the National Weather Service determined there was no prospect of gale warnings. A total of 135 vessels are registered for the Kodiak area fishery, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, including 110 on the Eastside, where the allowable catch was 2.44 million pounds. Another 20 vessel were registered to harvest the 465,000 allowable catch in the southeast sectors and five more for the 100,000 pound allocation in the southwest sector. For Alaska’s South Peninsula, 20 vessels each were registered for the western and eastern sectors. The allowable harvest for both western and eastern sectors of the South Peninsula is 225,000 pounds. The fishery was anticipat...
Kodiak Stand-Down Continues Over Tanner Crab Price Offer
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Kodiak Stand-Down Continues Over Tanner Crab Price Offer

A harvester stand-down continues in Kodiak, Alaska over the price offered by processors there for the Tanner crab season that opened Jan. 15. Kodiak Crab Alliance Cooperative (KCAC) spokesman Kevin Abena, skipper of the f/v Big Blue, said the Cooperative did not meet on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 22, with its permit holder members. Abena said 130 permit holders whom KCAC represents don’t feel they should go fishing at the $2.50 a pound offer from Kodiak processors.  Last year, Kodiak processors paid up to $8.40 a pound for the Tanners. This year’s quota for the Kodiak area Tanner crag fishery is 5.8 million pounds. Abena said that KCAC went back to Kodiak processors on Saturday, Jan. 21, with two options: a base price of $3.25 a pound plus matching a final settlement on the price o...
Low Price Prompts Kodiak District Crabbers to Stand Down from Tanner Crab Fishery
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Low Price Prompts Kodiak District Crabbers to Stand Down from Tanner Crab Fishery

Harvesters standing down from Tanner crab fisheries because of a $2.50 a pound offer from Kodiak processors say the earliest they could go fishing would be noon on Sunday, Jan. 22, if they get a reasonable price offer. Kevin Abena, secretary and treasurer of the Kodiak Crab Alliance Cooperative, said that as of Monday, Jan. 16, Alaska Pacific Seafoods and OBI Seafoods, the latter representing Ocean Beauty and Icicle, had upped their offer from $2.50 a pound to $3 a pound. Members of the cooperative are holding out for a higher price. Last year, Tanner crab harvesters were paid $8.30 a pound in Kodiak in the wake of the 2021 fishery, which was cancelled. Fishermen at King Cove and Sand Point were continuing negotiations with Peter Pan Seafoods. Abena said it’s the right decision for t...