8-1 crabbing

[seth30]

This is the first year I have pulled pot after pot that was empty on a opening weekend.  Anybody else having that issue?  Talked to a lot of other guys on the piers and they were all pulling empties or only had females.  Is it a bad year for crabs, overharvest by the commercial sources?  Thinking of trying a few new places as my traditional ones are not panning out.

[h20hunter]

81 and 82 are decimated by tribe fishing.

[seth30]

Dang

[singleshot12]

All the crab are being sent over-seas. It is amazing the amount of greed that occurs over the all mighty $

[lokidog]

Not looking for a stellar opener here this weekend, hundreds of indian pots out four days before we get to drop them.   

[WSU]

I don't think it is just tribal and commercial crabbing, although it all makes a dent.  It's a down cycle right now period.  Less females, less juveniles, and less keepers.  It started about 3 or 4 years ago here in the south sound, which is now nearly devoid of Dungeness, and you all up north a seeing it now.