Last year at this time in 8-1 we were hi grading our 15 crab limit for three of us out of 30-40 legal sized per run through of 4 pots. This year we are just scratching up limits. IMO this decline is due to the unusually heavy commercial effort that started about the last week of July last season, which put our catch rate into the "scratch fishing mode", and continued until at least Feb 2017.