PORT TOWNSEND — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is holding a public meeting in Port Townsend later this month to gauge public sentiment for three alternatives that will govern the sport Dungeness crab fishery.
The meeting will be held in the Point Hudson Marina, Marina Room, 375 Hudson St., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on July 27.
The meeting, one of four scheduled in western Washington, is part of a process to provide both sport and commercial nontreaty crab fishing opportunities under terms of a federal court mandate to share harvestable Dungeness crab and shellfish with Northwest treaty tribes.
For a look the abbreviated form of the three possible season structures, log on to: wdfw.wa.gov/commission/meetings/2010/06/ps_dungeness_alternatives.pdf.
Changes to the recreational crab season are scheduled to be implemented in 2011.
The state Fish and Wildlife Commission will take up the sport crabbing season topic including hearing public testimony at its Aug. 6-7 meeting in Olympia.
