Fishermen Anticipate Good Stone Crab Claw Season
October 20, 2014 | 1 min to read
MARATHON, Fla. – Florida’s stone crab claw harvesting season has opened, and commercial fishermen in the Keys anticipate high demand and likely higher prices than the beginning of last season.
Gary Graves is vice president of Keys Fisheries, one of the state’s largest processors of the tasty claws. He projected season-opening, per-pound state retail prices should exceed $13 for medium, $20 for large and $25 for jumbo.
Graves hopes this season’s statewide harvest, which began Wednesday and continues through May 15, will yield more than the 2.6 million pounds per season averaged during the past 10 years.
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