Those were two conclusions that came out of Monday's meeting in Seattle about Alaska crab stocks by the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council.
The meeting included a lengthy discussion of the exceedingly complex snow crab process, and one attendee told IntraFish the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will be requesting the council initiate revisions or development of a new rebuilding plan for snow crab.
Bairdi crab in the eastern Bering Sea was declared overfished, and the source said there will be a request for development of a rebuilding plan despite the fact two million pounds of a 3.9
