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While this year’s Kodiak tanner crab quota is the biggest since 1986, last year’s was sharply less, at 1.1 million pounds.
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Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
The collapse of two of three major crab stocks in Alaska — there’s a third, bairdi crab, also called tanner crab, which is doing fine, but is a much smaller industry — is more than a gastronomic inconvenience for the one-percenters.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
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Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
The collapse of two of three major crab stocks in Alaska — there’s a third, bairdi crab, also called tanner crab, which is doing fine, but is a much smaller industry — is more than a gastronomic inconvenience for the one-percenters.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
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“Tanner crab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tanner%20crab. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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