Don't forget that the measly 17% +- that sportsmen get applies only to Washington's INLAND waters. Most of the crab harvested in this State come from the ocean, where recreational crabbers get 0%.

I have always wondered how, when the crab "pie" was originally divided up, that the legislators decided that most of the crab "belong" to commercial crabbers, and not the citizens of the State. Why don't commercials get to take most of the deer or most of the ducks, etc?

(actually I know how it happened, but that's another story)