Harvest figures for the commercial Bering Sea snow crab indicate it's another slow start season for this fishery, a total allocation of 6.8 million pounds notwithstanding.
Daily harvest reports posted by NOAA Fisheries Service in Juneau show that through Feb. 3, vessels fishing with individual fishing quota have harvested 23,402,226 pounds, or 38 percent of their total allocation of 61,155,000 pounds. That leaves another 37,752,774 pounds of the allocation left to harvest. A total of 192 vessel landings have been made so far, 14 of them on Feb. 2, data reports showed.
Vessels harvesting the community development quota allocation of 6,795,000 pounds of snow crab have harvested 2,448,444 pounds, or 36 percent, and still have 4,346,556 pounds of their allocation available. CDQ vessels have made a total of 14 landings through Feb. 3.
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