My job is to try to document what some of those effects have been and there are many, many sides to the story.
This is a tricky thing to puzzle out. I'm going to try to talk to businesses that are likely to supply boats directly and people on boats and ask them how much they typically spend. Out of that I can make some reasonable estimates.
These are the kinds of things I'm trying to ask people about (to get) as many details as I can find out about the way this fishery works, the way it used to work and how it changed.
The total value of the crab that was caught is up slightly this year and that total values is being caught by one third as many boats and so what's happening is that the average catch per boat is way, way up.
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