Kayak crabbing
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Eel - we keep telling you you're gonna need a bigger boat! Or become a better surfer. That's some serious swell dude!
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DeerHunter53
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Eel
The boys said the demonic acid is back and they closed the season for crabs. Is it just for commercial or for the sportsmen as well
The boys said the demonic acid is back and they closed the season for crabs. Is it just for commercial or for the sportsmen as well
huntindad4
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I live in Crescent City and know quite a few commercial crabbers and as far as I know they are on their way out today to start pulling gear.
Bill
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Bill
People who work for a living are quickly being
overwhelmed by people who vote for a living.
eelgrass
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>Eel
>The boys said the demonic acid
>is back and they closed
>the season for crabs. Is
>it just for commercial or
>for the sportsmen as well
>
Interesting question. Up here in northern California the sport crabbing is wide open with the warning that crabs should be cleaned before cooking. (I always do that anyway)
Commercial crabs are always cooked and sold whole, and the processors do not wish to be compliant with that warning, so it will remain closed until the crabs test clean.
Having said that, the Fish & Wildlife have determined that crabs north of Humboldt Bay to the Oregon border are clean, so the commercial guys can crab there starting today. Unless that changed over night, which is possible.
The crab closures vary up and down the State and you have to monitor your location almost daily.
Sport crabbing here has been open since Nov. 4th and I have not heard of anyone getting sick from eating them. I think there is some politics involved.
>The boys said the demonic acid
>is back and they closed
>the season for crabs. Is
>it just for commercial or
>for the sportsmen as well
>
Interesting question. Up here in northern California the sport crabbing is wide open with the warning that crabs should be cleaned before cooking. (I always do that anyway)
Commercial crabs are always cooked and sold whole, and the processors do not wish to be compliant with that warning, so it will remain closed until the crabs test clean.
Having said that, the Fish & Wildlife have determined that crabs north of Humboldt Bay to the Oregon border are clean, so the commercial guys can crab there starting today. Unless that changed over night, which is possible.
The crab closures vary up and down the State and you have to monitor your location almost daily.
Sport crabbing here has been open since Nov. 4th and I have not heard of anyone getting sick from eating them. I think there is some politics involved.
huntindad4
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Domoic Acid is what they are testing for. The El Ni?o weather pattern has warmed the ocean which indirectly effects the levels found in shellfish. It causes Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning if eaten at high levels. A lot of the local crabbers are saying these levels have occurred in other El Ni?o years but they still crabbed both commercially and sport and ate them without ill effects and that this whole thing is a market and politics issue.
That being said the commercial boats are out in force here today pulling gear.
Bill
People who work for a living are quickly being
overwhelmed by people who vote for a living.
That being said the commercial boats are out in force here today pulling gear.
Bill
People who work for a living are quickly being
overwhelmed by people who vote for a living.
elkassassin
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>I hate crabs...I had them once
>in college
Once?
I'm Callin You on that!
[font color="blue"]She put a Big F.U. in My Future,Ya She's got a
way with Words[/font]
>in college
Once?
I'm Callin You on that!
[font color="blue"]She put a Big F.U. in My Future,Ya She's got a
way with Words[/font]
DeerMadness
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I miss diving for Dungeness in Seattle. The Rock Crabs were good too.
