State officials said commercial fishery will remain open in Zones 1 and 2, which extend north from the Sonoma-Mendocino ...

All open Fishing Zones remain under a Fleet Advisory for both the commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries.

The state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement the closure is meant to reduce entanglement risk to the ...

State regulators have frequently been forced to delay the California commercial Dungeness crab fishery – or close it early – ...

Commercial Dungeness crab fishing season is set to close off the San Francisco Bay Area coast on May 1, the California ...

Dungeness Crab season started a couple weeks ago in California and the weather conditions we perfect. We launched out of Half Moon Bay with my 16 foot Arima Sea Chaser, four crab conical promar hoop ...

California will close commercial fishing for Dungeness crab in the San Francisco area on May 1 to protect whales, after ...

A new climate vulnerability study paints a sobering picture for California’s fishing industry, highlighting serious threats ...

California has run a pilot program since 2023 to try out so-called pop-up gear to find a solution to crabbers' woes.

Crab fishing this year began in early January, earlier than 2024’s January 18 start. Even then, there were 50 percent fewer ...

A new study of some of California’s most commercially significant aquatic species paints a grim picture for the future of the ...