date:Dec 25, 2012
hermen are laying off crew and downsizing to smaller boats to cut costs.
It's a situation where you can't financially go out there, pull traps, put fresh bait in them and not make any money, he said.
Some fisherman have already called it quits for the season. But Becker thinks that such a move is a little premature. We're going to let sit over the holidays, go out the first of January and depending on what we catch, we'll let them sit for another couple of weeks.
Fishermen and researchers are