RE: Shrimping in Hood Canal
We're using pots. And it can really depend on how many we pull. But the limit is 70 per day per person, with a max of four pots in on the boat. I have known it where one set with three pots have come up with limits for 4 in two pots (which of course was the day I couldn't go), and other times where it takes 3 or 4 sets to get a partial limit. The boat owner gets the biggest share though which he deserves with his ragtagged crew. The "season" is strange, typically it is a Wednesday and Saturday from 9:00 AM through 1:00 PM, and it will run every other week for 8 weeks. The Indians have the week the sports people don't have, and since they are semi-commercial, they hit it pretty hard. They are the Hood Canal Spotted Shrimp which is a sub species of the Spotted Shrimp, and I don't know if the spotted shrimp is a Pacific Northwest shrimp or a shrimp localized to Pugetsound, but I know you can catch spotted shrimp up in the San Juans.