Management Objectives For Coastal Dungeness Crab

Policy number

C-3604

Supercedes

C-3604 (Effective 11/1/96-8/6/99)

Effective date

Aug 5, 1999

Signed by

Signed by: Kelly D. White, Fish and Wildlife Commission Chair

Goals

To protect the reproductive capacity of the stock.
To involve the commercial fishing industry representatives in the management of the fishery.
To protect public health.
To maximize the economic benefit from the resource.
To adopt regulations which seek to achieve safe and orderly fisheries.
To provide a sustainable Dungeness crab fishery of high quality product consistent with the "even flow" legislative mandate.
To provide support to industry buyback initiatives.
To protect Dungeness crab habitat.

Comply with the federal court order relative to treaty/non-treaty sharing of coastal shellfish resources
Manage the fishery to primarily benefit the commercial fishery.
Cooperate with other states' fish and wildlife agencies.
Seek to achieve a fair and equitable distribution across industry sectors of the effects resulting from the design and implementation of "even flow" management measures.
Manage the coastal Dungeness crab fishery consistent with the preferred alternative in the Even Flow Harvest Management Plan.