The crab season is set to open when the bios determine the molt is over and the crab have firmed up. Somehow, the Tribal bios determine this a month before the WDFW bios do! Happens every year...after year....after year.

They tell WDFW it's good to go, then fish. WDFW "postpones" our opening so there is no gear conflict, of course, that also means when you drop your pots, all that's left is females. (I was going to add undersized males, but they are disappearing too.)

It almost seems like it's planned that way.....