How are Puget Sound crab-fishing opportunities determined?
Fishing opportunities for Dungeness crab and other shellfish are shared equally between treaty Indian tribes and non-tribal fishers under a 1994 federal court ruling known as the “Rafeedie decision.” Non-tribal Puget Sound Dungeness crab fishing opportunities are allocated between recreational and commercial fishers under a policy adopted by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, the nine-member citizen panel that provides guidance to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Commission’s policy divides Puget Sound into six crab-management regions, three of which are off-limits to non-tribal commercial fishing. In the remaining three areas where both recreational and state commercial fisheries operate, recreational opportunity is based on the average annual sport catches from 1996 to 2000.
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