Fishing for Dungeness crab in Oregon requires flexibility. Crabbers are constantly reacting to factors beyond their control: new regulations, weather conditions or the notoriously shifting supply of crab.
In the past few decades, catches have fluctuated from 3.2 million pounds to a high of 33 million pounds.
Landings are cyclical, tending to fluctuate from one year to the next, but they can also exhibit some exciting trends, such as in the past decade, when the average annual harvest rose 60 percent over the prior decade.
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