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'Phenomenal Domestic Demand For Bay's Red King Crab - Home of the Northwesterners
'Phenomenal Domestic Demand For Bay's Red King Crab 'Phenomenal Domestic Demand For Bay's Red King Crab
By Margaret Bauman
Alaska Journal of Commerce
Wholesale prices for Bristol Bay red king crab are down 18 percent compared to a year ago, but crab brokers are upbeat over the domestic demand for this succulent seafood.
The domestic demand for fresh (Bering Sea red king crab) is phenomenal," said Ed Donaldson, a partner in The Crab Broker, one of the nation's largest crab dealers.
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Interesting article Angel Girl , I enjoy it often, thanks for sharing that ,Kudos,Kudos.
Margarita had me feelin' alright, Just might be that I found religion, I've been on my knees for half of the night, I was rolling the bones with Jimmy 'No Dice';
Gonna take him for a couple week's pay,...
~ ONE WILD NIGHT;
By BON JOVI~
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I wonder if they als deliver to germany xD
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So the price this season is $4.67 a pound to the boats and the article also says a 4 pound package on a website is $110!!!
The article also discusses the Russians depleting the fisheries resources.
Click over to it, quick and informative article.
Thanks
Donna
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Interesting article.
First of all, Donna, the word they used in relation to the Russian crab was attrition, not depletion.
To me that indicates some of the normal changes in available resources.
The available catch ebbs and flows due to various factors -- things like changes in water temperature, natural predators, and other factors in the undersea environment where the crab live.
Some of those things happened several years ago since it takes something like 7 years or more for a crab to grow big enough to be a keeper.
Yes, the Russians have a history of over fishing -- they routinely went over their quotas -- so that also may be a factor is what they can catch this year.
The total allowable catch (TAC) available to US fishermen is less this year than it was last year based on what they found during the surveys done last summer.
The TAC for King crab this year is 16,009,000 pounds whereas the TAC last year was 20,364,000 pounds and 20,383,000 in 2007.
That's quite a change in just one year.
So there is less crab that the US crab fishermen can catch this year too.
Secondly, the rules state that a certain percentage of the crab caught must be sold to the major processors.
I believe it's like 70 percent - I'm going from memory her and I could be wrong on the percentage.
Someone correct me on this if I am wrong.
The remainder can be sold to the smaller businesses like the Crab Broker who ship directly to their mail order customers.
Most of that 70 percent goes straight to Japan where it's further processes and repackaged.
Last year Edgar was telling us that he had bought some of their own crab to give as Christmas presents.
He said once they off loaded their crab it went straight from the processor into a boat that shipped it all to Japan.
Then it had to come back from Japan to fill his own order.
There might be more of demand for Alaskan crab in the US, but most of it is still sold to Japan.
The price that's paid to the fishermen is always much lower than what they are charging at the retail end.
The fishermen get their $4.67 per pound but there are mark-ups along the way by the processor and the retailer.
That's the way it goes.
Ann
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Quote: : The available catch ebbs and flows due to various factors -- things like changes in water temperature, natural predators, and other factors in the undersea environment where the crab live.
And I don't suppose the crab care which side of the border they're on ...
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Quote: : And I don't suppose the crab care which side of the border they're on ...
LOL. No they don't.
But the Russians do have a reputation for not doing the right thing when it comes to crabbing.
They have seemed not to care about protecting the resource by over fishing by taking more than they were allowed under whatever quota system they were using.
I've also heard that they used the long drag nets to catch the crab which is very damaging to the ecosystem and also pulls in a lot of bycatch that is just thrown out.
A while ago I tried to find something to verify if they were still doing that but I didn't have any luck.
We haven't heard much about any of this in some time but I do remember that they promised to crack down on over fishing.
They're obviously still fishing for crab up there because I've seen crab in the stores, clearly labeled as Russian crab.
Ann
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