Always somebody jumping the gun.
With the lack of crabs in MA 11, he must have felt the need to beat his brothers to the punch.

Larry,
All kidding aside, I thought I had read before on of the reasons the recs start later (July) is the state and tribes don't agree in regards to when the crabs will be soft or hard shelled.
The tribe believes they are hard shelled earlier while the state doesn't.
You seem to have the crab management pretty dialed in. Any truth to that?
SF