Originally Posted By: Bobberdoggin
They do the same with the shellfish seasons. It bugs me they get to pick and choose all the clean all the largest of the available harvest just before the sport guys get to clean up the scraps. They literally cork us every year.


True.

With crab the fix is easy. In those management areas with NT commercial crabbing every year the recreational season should open on an emergency basis concurrent with the first tribal pot hitting the water.

That would allow recreational crabbers the opportunity to crab on the maximum harvestable biomass rather than dealing with leftovers.
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