California Dungeness Finally Beginning to Open after 3 Month Delay
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Susan Chambers - February 12, 2016
After missing the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays and losing out on some Super Bowl seafood sales, fishermen and processors in San Francisco may finally see local Dungeness in stores and restaurants.
The California Department of Public Health and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment have determined Dungeness crab in Central California no longer poses a health risk from domoic acid.
Sport and commercial fisheries have have been closed since early November 2015. In consultation with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the state on Thursday opened the recreational crab fishery south of Point Reyes in Marin County.
Commercial Dungeness fisheries statewide remain closed, but that is likely to change....
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