This year’s crab season is going to be the season of plump crab with full meat. Even the price also differs as bargaining between fishermen and processors produced an agreement this week on an opening price of $1.60 per pound. The Oregon Department of Agriculture revealed that the first week of crab harvest is expected to provide especially high-quality crab.
Nick Furman, executive director of the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission, told that this year the crab were making Dec. 1 standards in the middle of October. He added that missing quantity can be makes up with quality. The lower population of crab means less competition for food, resulting in meatier crab. It is told that the $1.60 per pound price is only for the opening of the season, the forces of supply and demand dictate what the price will be later in the harvest.
The disappointing Central California season has many people expecting crabbers from that region to move their fishing operations northward. U.S Coast Guard LT Scott Parkhurst, informed that operation Safe Crab is an initiative started to reduce the loss of lives and fishing vessels in the West Coast crab fleet. He also told that the commercial crab fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in America and we are trying to reduce the number of fatalities. It is informed that commercial crab fishermen are allowed to set gear 72 hours before the opening of the season.
