The commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in the San Francisco region will be delayed to protect whales from getting tangled in trap gear, state regulators said. The use of traps was scheduled ...

commercial crab fishing will be closed throughout the Bay Area. This is earlier than technically possible, as the season could run through June. According to the San Francisco Chronicle ...

It’s January in San Francisco, and you know what that means? It’s the perfect time to get yourself some fresh crab while it’s still in season. Commercial crab fishing usually begins in November, but ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Commercial Dungeness crab fishing season is set to close off the San Francisco Bay Area coast on May 1, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced Monday.

But restaurants across San Francisco got their first shipments ... Commercial crabbers are limited to just 50% of their crab baskets this season. Crabbing along the coasts of Oregon and Washington ...

Commercial Dungeness crab season will officially come to a close in the state this week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday. The ...

This year’s whale deaths are outpacing the high numbers seen during the unusual mortality event from 2019 to 2023.

San Francisco and Bodega Bay, where whales are now returning to their feeding grounds. This crab season had first opened on Jan. 5. Officials explained that the whale entanglements off the West ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale ... or closed early for whales,” said Brand Little, a San Francisco Dungeness crab fisherman who is among those ...

California's Dungeness crab season is starting to end in Monterey ... It will not affect San Francisco, most of the Bay Area or the north of the Central Coast. Wildlife officials said that they ...