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 […]
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Eureka PlanCo Says Don’t Re-zone Woodley Island
The Eureka Planning Commission has recommended that the city not change its zoning of Woodley Island, as the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District recently requested. The city is in the process of updating its general plan, a process that Community Development Director Rob Holmlund says will take another year or so. In doing […]