Shrimp Season?

[Billgo4th]

Any word on shrimp season this year?

[Nelly]

Hey Bill,
The first Puget Sound opener is Saturday May 6 and then possibly a second opener on the 10th.
Stay tuned, we'll be doing a segment on that with that WDFW shellfish manager this Saturday.

[SlumRunner]

Pretty messed up by WDFW to make the shrimp opener the same day as the halibut opener, yet not many are talking about that.

[Billgo4th]

Thanks for the update! Yeah very odd for them to just have one opening day and possible second day? Hali opening on May 4th, but still the first weekend Saturday. I will look for your segment on Saturday. Whatever happen to Area 13? why did they start limited that area. It use to be the full month of May.

[chromer]

I also think the Halibut/Shrimp overlap is a horrible idea. With a paltry number of days for both, it stinks to be pushed toward picking one or the other.

[Billgo4th]

Hey the official days are now posted... I wonder who was the genius that made it overlap? They should of at least pushed it to Sunday! LAF!!


http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/may0117a/

[chromer]

Note the late start time, and early closure in MA-10 9:00-1:00 Saturday. Not very well advertised. Will be interesting to see how many pots are in the water at the normal 7:00 am time Saturday morning.

[Nelly]

Good eye Chromer!
Nice catch on the regs there. It's good to make that catch than be caught.