Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
Reliably capturing their harvest patterns would be a very good thing for the agency.


Regarding Puget Sound crab I believe the average crab harvest per endorsement in 2015 was been between 4 and 5 crab.

Given that harvest data for successful crabbers provided via CRCs gives both a date and a number of retained crab I have suggested to WDFW (unsuccessfully to date) that those numbers be crunched to provide (by MA and dates) the number of successful crabbers and the average number of crab retained. To me that data could be graphed and yield a picture of how rapidly harvest rates drop off and correlate that to drop off in successful trips (since the CRC does not provide for recording unsuccessful trips).

Just a quick additional tidbit from the summary: 249 commercial P.S. crab licenses harvested crab with an ex vessel value of $11,700,000. That works out to just under $47K per license in gross revenue.
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