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Les Hodges: Russians add to crab market pinch, cut king quota in Far East

'With the US market demand for snow crab we've experienced to-date, it is expected,  moving forward, that snow crab inventories will be limited' -- Les Hodges

By Undercurrent News | Sept. 7, 2021 14:55 BST
Red king crab. Photograph courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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If the news that the US state of Alaska has closed its red king crab fishery for the 2021/22 season wasn't bad enough, add to it that the Russian Ministry of Agriculture has decreased permissible catches of red king in its Far East to 15,280 metric tons, 1,031t or nearly 7% less than last season, according to consultant Les Hodges [...]

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