Bay Area Restaurants, Fishermen Adjust as Commercial Dungeness Crabbing Season Pushed Back
Bay Area seafood lovers hoping to serve fresh Dungeness crab for Thanksgiving or Christmas are out of luck again this year. California officials have postponed the commercial crabbing season once more because of the ongoing risk of whale entanglements off the Northern California coast.
At the docks near San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, crab pots are sitting idle.
The delay doesn’t come as a surprise, as the season has been pushed back four or five years in a row, but commercial fishermen said that doesn’t...
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