A decades-long effort to boost red king crab production in the US state of Alaska is finally taking shape with a pilot project underway in the Bering Sea to release hatchery-raised juvenile crab into the Bristol Bay fishery. ‘It’s kind of a leap of faith. We don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re trying, and this is the first attempt to really make a tangible impact on a population that has an active fishery’ — Ben Daly, Alaska Department of Fish and Game. See the full article here.
