Crabbers celebrate good season
Posted by Webmaster on Sep 3, 2010 in Crabbing in Oregon |
NEWPORT (AP) — As the Dungeness crab season wraps up on the Oregon coast, crabbers are celebrating a good season.
Fishermen have hauled in more than 23 million pounds in the past eight and a half months. That’s the fourth time in the past decade that landings have exceeded 20 million pounds. By the time crabbers bring in all of their pots by month’s end, some say they expect the total to reach 25 million pounds.
What’s been counted so far adds up to $44.5 million earned by Oregon’s 429-member crab fleet.
The Register-Guard reports that’s the third-largest season on record in terms of a dollar figure. The ripple effects are estimated at $90 million in economic impact to Oregon’s coastal communities.
