ADF&G: No Commercial 2017 Tanner Crab Season for S. AK Pen., Chignik & Kodiak

The tanner crab, Chionoecetes bairdi. From NOAA via Wikipedia.

ADF&G has announced there will be NO commercial Tanner season in 2017 for Kodiak, Chignik & South Alaska Peninsula (http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static-f/applications/dcfnewsrelease/752788271.pdf).

Large-Mesh Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2015 (http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/FedAidPDFs/FMR16-20.pdf)

2015 Tanner crab Chionoecetes bairdi Bottom Trawl Survey results for the South Peninsula District (PDF).