Southeast Alaska’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery will close two weeks early due to poor returns, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) announced last week.
The state forecasts about two million pounds of crab will be harvested across the region this season, a significant decrease from the past four years. It will be only the third time in 20 years that the state has closed the fishery early.
“We’re generally hearing regionwide of below-average…
