Pribilof Island Blue King Crab Mortality
(Bering Sea Groundfish Fishery Bycatch)
Crab year: 2019-2020
National Marine Fisheries Service
Alaska Region, Sustainable Fisheries
Catch Accounting
GEAR
Mortality
ABC
Current Week Catch
Hook-and-Line
0.004
0
Pot
0
0
Nonpelagic Trawl
0.415
0
Pelagic Trawl
0
0
All
0.419
0.87
0
Crab year is July 1-June 30
An 80% mortality rate is applied to bycatch estimates in trawl gear fisheries, and a 50% mortality rate is applied to bycatch estimates in hook-and-line and pot gear fisheries.