The weather the past two days has been brutal out on the crab grounds. We had anticipated the season would be over this weekend and now it looks like it’ll be Tuesday. The crab are averaging between 6.0 and 6.2 pounds for the most part. The crab is really clean and meat fill is great.

Have chartered two planes today for our fresh shipments. We will ship fresh next week weather permitting. So far we are batting 100% on getting all our fresh out on time.

Still trying to figure out what data and research they are using as everyone is on the crab. Water temperature has warmed up to temperatures four or five years ago and crab is where they were back then. It’s promising for the future. A lot of skippers are seeing male crab that is just under the legal size so next year they will be “keepers”.

Once again our partner in Dutch Harbor has done a brilliant job with our fresh crab program along with our frozen orders. We’ve always said they produce the best crab and this year is no different. We’ve also gotten a lot of support from the fleet, delivering “B&C” share crab to us.

Sales are down a bit this year due to high prices but with maybe only 1,000,000 pounds coming south, you won’t be seeing ALASKA RED KING CRAB on as many menu’s this coming year.