Fish Factor: Crab, pollock stocks show abundance in latest surveys

Alaska's conservative management combined with the grace of Mother Nature is swelling the abundance of two of the state's largest and most important fisheries. Bering Sea crab scientists and stakeholders met last week to discuss the outlook for Alaska's biggest crab fisheries that open Oct. 15. The takeaway was that the stocks of red king crab, bairdi tanners and snow crab all showed big increases in mature size classes, based on data from the annual summer surveys.

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