This document summarizes data presented in the Report to Industry on the 2000 Eastern Bering Sea Trawl Survey. Numbers presented are trawl survey indices of population level and do not necessarily represent absolute abundance. Abundance of mature and legal males has decreased due to mortality and fishery removals. Fishery opens October 15, 2000. Females are poorly estimated.
Data indicate a long-term population decline.
Red king crabs in the Pribilof Islands are usually harvested incidental to blue king crabs. Fishery will not open in 2000. Fishery will not open in 2000. Abundance estimates are affected by the portion of the stock occupying untrawlable grounds. Fishery will not open in 2000.