Full Freezer,

What you have to factor in is the almost exponential growth of all recreational fisheries over the past 10 to 20 years. There are multiple times as many people using highly efficient equiptment, gear and technology to harvest a finite resource. In the case of downriggers, sport fishermen and women are actually employing what once was considered commercial gear.
Something has to give. Either lower limits, shorter seasons or a depletion of the resource.
Personally, I think the dungeness crab limit should be reduced to 3 crab per day. The 6 per day limit results in a tremendous waste and considerable black market sales of recreationally caught crab.
On another thread on this board someone refered to the recreational crab harvest as a subsistance fishery. Wa. has no subsistance fisheries other than tribal. In short sport fisheries are just that. They are not intended to fill peoples freezers. They are only intended to create an opportunity for recreation.