Sean Lucey
445:07 - 445:53
“And for Western Aleutian Islands red king crab, OFL 56 metric tons, ABC 14 metric tons for the years 2026 and 2027.”
- Speaker
- Sean Lucey
- Timestamp
- 445:07 – 445:53
- Transcript
- NPFMC 280 Day 2 - October 9, 2026
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 9, 2026
From the transcript
And for Western Aleutian Islands red king crab, OFL 56 metric tons, ABC 14 metric tons for the years 2026 and 2027. And on the, the issue we heard so much about in public testimony, the SSC and the crab plan team support hybrid Chionoecetes crab, the council encourages collaboration between researchers, managers, harvesters, and processors to identify opportunities for increased Tanner-Snow hybrid crab harvest without negative impacts to the Chionoecetes opilio or Chionoecetes beardii stocks. And with a second, I'll speak to the motion.
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