The US fleet got shut down for Red King crab this year, but they put up a decent Golden (brown) King crab pack. Tanner and bairdai got cut back 85%.
If you buy king crab this year, please buy the American Golden King. All Red King on the market this year is Russian. Since the US shut down it's fleet, the Russians increased their quota (effectively fishing the same crab biomass) and are dumping red crab on our markets. Russia's moves are pretty devastating on our fleet, and the resource.
Thank you-
I appreciate you keeping us educated on this. I know there is issues going on in the back of my head, but don't have the capacity to track everything to know when issues like this arise. I wont be supporting Russian overfishing and wouldn't have known they did this until now.
Thank you