{"id":14217,"date":"2017-07-24T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fish-and-game-opens-red-king-crab-fishing-off-juneau-next-week\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:15:00","slug":"fish-and-game-opens-red-king-crab-fishing-off-juneau-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fish-and-game-opens-red-king-crab-fishing-off-juneau-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish and Game opens red king crab fishing off Juneau next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau fishermen looking for good news might find it in a crab claw.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced that a long-closed personal-use red king crab fishery will open for four days at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfg.alaska.gov\/static\/applications\/dcfnewsrelease\/832951950.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">According to the department<\/a>, king crab fishing will open in Section 11A at 6 a.m. Thursday, July 27. Fishing will stay open through 8 p.m. Monday, July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Section 11A includes all waters around Juneau and Douglas Island, and it stretches from Point Bishop to Little Island Light off the northern end of Lincoln Island.<\/p>\n<p>Fishery managers decided to allow a small king crab harvest near Juneau after the annual crab survey turned up good results.<\/p>\n<p>Fishermen interested in catching king crab must obtain a household permit from the Douglas Fish and Game office starting at 8 a.m. Monday. Permits are not available online.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with a household permit can catch two male crab during the four-day season. Each fishing boat is allowed to carry one crab pot or two ring nets.<\/p>\n<p>When a fisherman hits the limit, the household permit must be returned to Fish and Game immediately, or by Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 465-4250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau fishermen looking for good <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">news<\/a> might find it in a crab claw. On Friday afternoon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced that a long-closed personal-use red king crab fishery will open for four days at the end of the month. According to the department, king crab fishing will open in Section 11A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[104,285],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fishing","tag-personal-use-fishery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}