I do wish the tribal take would all happen in a couple days in March/Apr/May. I don't know about the molting calendar and all that, but what I do know is when they harvest in June, a majority of the crab I pull in July have to go back since they measure just under 6 1/4". Maybe if they harvested earlier, one more molting cycles might help get them to 6 1/4"...not that I like keeping that size, but you get the point.

Tribal co-managers have harvested 5.1 tons more crab PER YEAR than the state share...PER YEAR for the last 17 years ( from WDFW data) in Crab Region 4, which is roughly the same as marine Area 10.