"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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The proposed 2005 Dungeness crab rules have been announced for Puget
Sound.

The bag limit has been reduced from six crabs to four, with crabbing
allowed
only on weekdays and a single day each weekend. It has become rather
predictable for sportsmen to get the short shrift when resources must be
allocated between
pleasure boaters, commercial crabbers, and the indigenous tribes.


Chuck, are the commercial crabbers a step ahead of the regulatory agencies,
in terms of instituting their own slot limits, as has been done by
lobstermen in Maine?