Crabbers Can Celebrate a Merry Christmas This Year: Season Opens Dec. 1 in Most Areas
For the first time in several years, the stars aligned so Dungeness crabbers can look forward to an early Christmas.
It's been awhile since northern California, Oregon and Washington could open all at once, on the traditional Dec. 1 season opening. This year, meat recovery rates show very full crab. Domoic acid levels are nearly negligible. Whales have moved on - for the most part.
Pre-season testing for meat recovery for the stations off Washington, Oregon and California were completed and the results show...
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