Commercial fishing seasons in alaska

Commercial harvest of Alaskan king crab

Alaskan king crab fishing is carried out during the fall in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

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The commercial catch is shipped worldwide. Large numbers of king crab are also caught in Russian and international waters.

In 1980, at the peak of the king crab industry, Alaskan fisheries produced up to 200,000,000 pounds (91,000,000 kg) of crab.

However, by 1983, the total size of the catch had dropped by up to 90% in some places.^[1] Several theories for the precipitous drop in the crab population have been proposed, including overfishing, warmer waters, and increased fish predation.^[2] As a result, the current season is very short and in the 2010 season, only 24,000,000 pounds (11,000,000 kg) of red king crab were landed.^[3]

Alaskan crab fishing is very dangerous, and the fatality rate among the fishermen is about 80 times the fatality rate of the average worker.

It is suggested that, on average, one crab fisherman dies weekly during the season

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