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2. Alaskan king crab fishing - Wikipedia

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   As a result, the current season is very short and in the 2010 season, only 24,000,000 pounds (11,000,000 kg) of red king crab were landed. [3] Alaskan crab fishing is very dangerous, and the fatality rate among the fishermen is about 80 times the fatality rate of the average worker.

3. Alaska fishermen will be allowed to harvest lucrative red ...

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   Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab for the first time in two years, offering a slight reprieve to the beleaguered fishery beset by low numbers likely exacerbated by climate change.

4. Red king crab - Wikipedia

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   The red king crab is the largest species of king crab. [2] Red king crabs can reach a carapace width up to 28 cm (11 in), a leg span of 1.8 m (5.9 ft), [3] and a weight of 12.7 kg (28 lb). [4] Males grow larger than females. Today, red king crabs infrequently surpass 17 cm (7 in) in carapace width and the average male landed in the Bering Sea ...

5. Alaska fishers fear another bleak season as crab populations ...

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   The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year's take. Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father's crab boat, the Silver Spray, before ...

6. FV Northwestern - Wikipedia

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   The Northwestern was one of the few vessels to fish for blue king crab in 2009 after completing its red king crab season. During the summer, the vessel keeps busy tendering (transporting fish from vessels at sea to floating processors, allowing the fishing boats to stay on the grounds rather than make repeated trips back to port) salmon and ...

7. Canceled crab harvests for Alaska and WA to cost fisheries ...

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8. Commercial fishing in Alaska - Wikipedia

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   Commercial fishing is a major industry in Alaska, and has been for hundreds of years. Alaska Natives have been harvesting salmon and many other types of fish for millennia Including king crab. Russians came to Alaska to harvest its abundance of sealife, as well as Japanese and other Asian cultures.

9. Canceled crab harvests for Alaska and WA to cost fisheries ...

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