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Old 01-29-2022, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Southern MN
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I'm in the seafood industry as an employer and don't share your attitude about the workers. You clearly have no idea of how hard these people work or that the struggles faced by many processors to find labor have nothing to do with your talking point.
I'm not sure what attitude you've decided I have about your workers. I believe I acknowledged that those who do work do so in tough conditions in Post #13.

No talking points here and not interested in an argument about my attitude. Just shooting the breeze. But down here in the Lower 48 we've slowed to a crawl due to people abandoning their jobs in droves.

Maybe that's not true in Alaska. I know that those MN farm boys who were husky, acclimated to cold and used to hard work thirty years ago all swore on their grandpas' Bibles they'd never go back and work at crabbing.

I came back to share this link I ran into today. Interesting.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/are-...the-money.html

I did know about the overharvesting and acknowledged that. So glad you'll be more careful from now on. Heh.

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Old 01-29-2022, 03:20 PM
 
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My idea of your attitude comes from this comment:

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They if we can just convince someone that working for a living is a worthy endeavor we can start harvesting them again. LOL
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But down here in the Lower 48 we've slowed to a crawl due to people abandoning their jobs in droves.
You mean they're quitting crappy little public-facing minimum wage jobs with no benefits that they can't even make rent on unless they work two or three of them. Good. The current unemployment rate is 3.9%; they aren't "abandoning" their jobs so much as moving on to greener pastures. You can read more about that here:

https://www.marketplace.org/2021/10/...re-they-going/

And here. I agree with this guy; the world has changed, and I don't think anyone can be blamed for not wanting to work with the public anymore:

https://afarmishkindoflife.com/nobody-wants-to-work/

The restaurant industry in particular deserves to "slow to a crawl" after their long, shameful history of treating workers like expendable garbage and allowing their customers to do the same.

But that's not what's affecting the labor market in Alaska for the big offshore crab processors (oldish article but still an issue for them).

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2017/08...help-vanishes/

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So glad you'll be more careful from now on. Heh.
I don't work with crab at all, sorry. The crab industry could die tomorrow for all I care, and I'd probably benefit financially if it did. But maybe 2022 will be a little better for them since the previous administration's ban on H-2B visas was recently overturned. If not, enjoy your lab meat.

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Old 01-29-2022, 04:25 PM
 
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Sad news. I believe the Costco King crab comes from Russia.
how much?
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Old 01-29-2022, 04:26 PM
 
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There is always Dungenese crab and stone crab and blue crabs.
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Old 01-29-2022, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Juneau, AK + Puna, HI
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how much?
I can't recall. Haven't been in JNU Costco for awhile due to being out of state.
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Old 02-03-2022, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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"Wild Cooked Red King Crab Legs" $36.99/lb at Seattle Costco this morning.
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Old 02-03-2022, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Was Midvalley Oregon; Now Eastside Seattle area
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dungeness @Freddies/QFC 10.99. Mid Jan I saw it at @7.99.
people need to learn about the best tasting part of the crab.
same with Salmon.

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Old 02-03-2022, 03:47 PM
 
Location: Anchorage
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"Wild Cooked Red King Crab Legs" $36.99/lb at Seattle Costco this morning.

If they left the word "Alaska" out of that, it almost certainly means it came from Russia.
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Old 03-02-2022, 08:13 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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If they left the word "Alaska" out of that, it almost certainly means it came from Russia.

Yes, very likely, or possibly Norway. It appears now that king crab may be going even higher with many companies refusing to sell Russian products.
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Old 08-21-2022, 11:05 AM
 
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Default Alaska’s snow crabs have disappeared

Article in today's WaPo that the crab harvest has collapsed. People in Alaska probably already know that, but it was startling to read the article.

Excerpt: "Scientists, despite earlier optimistic signs, found that snow crab stocks were down 90 percent. The season opened and the total allowable harvest went from 45 million pounds to 5.5 million pounds. Commercial fishers couldn’t even catch that quantity. In October 2021, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game closed the king crab season entirely to harvesting, for the first time since the 1990s."


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