Bad weather throughout the Northwest United States this month has led to low landings and high prices for Dungeness crab.
Prices were already higher than last season before the season began. In Oregon, crabbers negotiated a starting rate of USD 3.10 per pound, up from USD 2.65 a pound in 2013. Then, on 6 December, processors agreed to raise the price to USD 3.50 and applied the price retroactively back to the start of the season.
“The big storm took a lot of guys off of the water for four to…
