Tug, South Sound crab demise was also a victim of WDFW's 3-S management scheme; Size-Sex-Season. The current Shellfish Manager wrote in a presentation to the Commission (12 April 2018) that the 3-S system was developed for coastal waters and may not be appropriate for areas with limited water exchanges such as South Sound. And then there was one tribe which harvested 3X its quota one year and 2X the following year and then decided to not sign off on any harvest numbers.
Recreational harvest was comparatively miniscule.