The Damn-Fool Fishery

Latest Crab Crisis shows long-term political problems with industry

The crab dispute has its immediate causes and the organizations involved will find a patch to resolve it and get through to another problem.  That’s what happened at the start of last season, which everyone now describes as the best crab season ever. It’s happened before. Lots of times.

But there are deeper issues and deeper causes to the chronic fisheri…