Crab season: Fishermen, processors claw out deal
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/29/MNQM1M16HB.DTL
Seafood processors essentially flipped an extra quarter into the pot Monday and, with that, local fishermen dashed to their boats and rumbled out of San Francisco Bay in a mad scramble for Dungeness crab.
The commercial crab season officially began moments after Central California crab fishermen and seafood processors agreed to a price of $2.25 per pound for the spindly crustaceans.
“We’ll have crab on the market by Wednesday or Thursday,” said Larry Collins, head of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, who fielded a call over the weekend from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee wondering when he could expect crab to hit his dinner table. “Get your salt water boiling.”...
I’ve never been able to like Dungeness, and I’ve tried. Maybe it has to be ultra-fresh, right out of the water and boiled alive, like our blue crab.
The commercial crab season officially began moments after Central California crab fishermen and seafood processors agreed to a price of $2.25 per pound for the spindly crustaceans.That sounds more like a union labor contract than "free market" pricing.
I'll bet some of you actually thought/believed we had a free market stystem.