. The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf : oceanography and resources / edited by Donald W. Hood and John A. Calder. Oceanography Bering AVERAGE 1969-1978 Figure 61-2. Relative contributions of various crabs to the landed value of United States crab landings. that the 1979 eastern Bering Sea king crab catch was about 49,000 mt or 78 percent of the estimated 68,000 mt total Alaskan catch of king crab. The importance of Tanner crab fisheries in the eastern Bering Sea relative to other areas in Alaska declined from 1965 until 1973. This decline was due to decreasing foreign catch as well as developin
. The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf : oceanography and resources / edited by Donald W. Hood and John A. Calder. Oceanography Bering AVERAGE 1969-1978 Figure 61-2. Relative contributions of various crabs to the landed value of United States crab landings. that the 1979 eastern Bering Sea king crab catch was about 49,000 mt or 78 percent of the estimated 68,000 mt total Alaskan catch of king crab. The importance of Tanner crab fisheries in the eastern Bering Sea relative to other areas in Alaska declined from 1965 until 1973. This decline was due to decreasing foreign catch as well as developing fisheries for Tanner crab along the south side of the Alaska Peninsula and around Kodiak Island. Since 1973, the importance of the catch of Tanner crab in the eastern Bering Sea has increased relative to other areas, and in 1977, 1978, and 1979 the eastern Bering Sea provided most of the Tanner crab taken within 200 miles of Alaskan shores. Since the Japanese still participate in eastern Bering. PERCENT OF TOTAL CATCH Figure 61-3. Relative contributions of eastern Bering Sea crab fisheries to domestic landings of king and Tanner crabs. Sea Tanner crab fisheries. Fig. 61-3 does not pro- vide an index of the contribution of the eastern Bering Sea to domestic landings. In 1978, the domes- tic landings from the eastern Bering Sea were 30,800 mt or 52 percent of Tanner crab landings (58,700 mt). The 1979 catch provided a similar pro- portion of domestic landings. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Commercial crab fisheries in the eastern Bering Sea began in 1930, when a Japanese ship processed about one million red king crab in the area north of the Alaska Peninsula (Harrison et al. 1942, Miyahara 1954). There was no fishing in 1931, but one or two factory ships operated in the area each year from 1932 to 1939. Some million crab were taken over the eight-year period (Miyahara 1954). There was no further Japanese fishing until 1953. Exploratory fishing by the United States began
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