Great questions. Science suggests that the influence of ocean acidification will likely impact northern puget sound long before it reaches the southern extent. So before people blame habitat and climate based habitat change, lets see some data to support that conclusion. It is pretty obvious that aggressive harvest coupled with natural fluctuations in crab population recruitment can explain 100% of why we have no crab left to target.

Lets see tribal and non-tribal harvest data for the past several years along with whatever recruitment information is available specifically for these southern crab management areas. Seems to be pretty well-accepted that the tribal fisheries have been very aggressive and incompletely reported. Is that true? I would like to see responsible co- management of this fishery so that everyone gets to participate.