UPDATE: Ken Bates, Vice President of the Humboldt Fishermen’s Marketing Association, reports that as of 4 p.m. on Jan. 6, Oregon fishermen and processors negotiated a price for Dungeness crabs at $2.875 a pound, an even split of the $2.75 processors offered, and the original price of $3.00 paid since Nov. 15, 2016. In his press […]
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Crab Fishermen in West Coast Ports Pull Pots in Solidarity with Humboldt
A week’s worth of negotiations have failed to break the stalemate between Humboldt Dungeness crab fishermen and the Pacific Group, which locally owns Pacific Choice Seafood. Last week, Pacific Group announced it was lowering its buying price for crab from $3 per pound to $2.75. Fishermen in District 7 — which stretches south from Humboldt Bay’s […]