Sustaining the Harvest for Dungeness Crab
A year into the process, Central Coast Nations assess whether management efforts are working to improve crab abundance and food fishery access.
Dungeness crab
Lessons in Co-governance: Ensuring FSC Access to Dungeness Crab
Drawing upon years of intensive research, surveys and multi-general knowledge, Central Coast First Nations say closures at key locations will maintain healthy crab populations.
New fishing closures proposed for crab
The two key findings from our published research papers are: (1) our catches have declined such that we cannot meet our FSC needs, and (2) fishing closures can help crab populations recover.
Science and our fishers agree: crab populations in trouble
As fishing pressure has increased in recent years and our Nations’ catches of Dungeness crab have declined, our people have become concerned about the state of this food resource in our territories. Our Watchmen have assembled the most comprehensive scientific dataset available on central coast crab…