Despite the delay of commercial Dungeness crab season, and the temporary prohibition against using ”long soak” rigid crab pots, plenty of Monterey Bay residents enjoyed their traditional Thanksgiving ...

Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2023-2024 season. In order to avoid entanglements with the large number of whales feeding in nearshore areas along ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced commercial Dungeness crab restrictions will be lifted on Jan. 5 in DFW Zones 1 and 2. Recreational anglers in those zones may use traditional ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Commercial fishermen are most likely going to be crabby after the latest announcement from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The opening of the Dungeness crab commercial ...

Dungeness Crab season has begun in California, coinciding with ideal weather conditions. The fishing trip departed from Half Moon Bay, utilizing a 16-foot Arima Sea Chaser, four crab conical promar ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued a stoppage of crab fishing with traps for the Monterey Bay for the protection of whales. The CDFW announced on Friday that crab fishing will ...

Crab traps are back in play for California’s recreational fleet, and the timing could reshape how you spend the first full weekend of the new year on the water. With recreational crab trap ...

A Humpback whale swims off the coast of San Diego, California, in 2022, entangled with the lines of two commercial Dungeness crab traps. The line is deeply embedded in the flesh of the whale. (Photo ...