Perhaps we should require all crab be tagged like dear and elk. We could even have reporting stations at every local gas station and convenience store where biological samples and harvest records are entered into a log and returned to the WDFW to be processed in 5 or 6 years maybe never...

a 50$ tag is still cheaper than 5.99 per pound for 2 months out of the year...

on a serious note, the shorter and shorter the seasons get the more concentrated the effort and the more likely there will be for people to poach because of the limited opportunity... when we had year round crabbing, there was never a thought to keep a barely legal or over limit because you could always come out tomorrow or next week, Now that we have only 40 something days, a person thinks about it every time they are out. fortunately, crabbing has been so bad recently that it is not an issue...