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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Putting the pinch on illegal crabbers

100 percent compliant: State Fish and Wildlife Officer Chris Moszeter reaches for a tool to measure crab as Officer Erik Olson tells Brad Jacobson, of Edmonds, that they're conducting spot checks of crab fishermen. The family, gathering Dungeness near Whidbey Island, had followed state laws perfectly. Many crab fishermen don't.