Crab volume down, quality called average

Shawn Pacquette of Seawater Seafood handles live crab that had just been unloaded from the hold of F/V Nichole Lynn, part of about 15,000 pounds the boat had brought to the Port of Newport dock Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Dennis Anstine)

After a few days of harvesting crab in the wake of a month-long delay in the season’s opener, fishermen are bemoaning the volume while saying the quality of the crab is average to good.





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