California's commercial Dungeness crab season is set to open on January 5 with limits on the number of commercial traps ...

The Bay Area’s commercial Dungeness crab season can begin Jan. 5, state officials announced Friday, now that many of the ...

The Central Coast Dungeness commercial crab season will open Jan. 5 with 40% fewer traps permitted, in order to reduce the risk of lines entangling whales. State officials and environmental groups say ...

TURNED OVER TO A LAB FOR TESTING. ANOTHER DELAY FOR CRAB SEASON HERE ON THE CENTRAL COAST. AGAIN OVER CONCERNS FOR THE SAFETY OF HUMPBACK WHALES. THE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE SAYS THEY’VE ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We've had a lot of discouraging news recently about the Dungeness crab season being delayed here in the Bay Area. But a recent big development could help turn the situation ...

SEATTLE — Researchers are waging a quiet battle in the Pacific Northwest to protect one of the region’s most iconic species — the Dungeness crab. Using light traps, scientists at the MaST Center ...

A trap restriction is in place in the northernmost part of the state due to the risk of whale and sea turtle entanglements.

The Dungeness season was delayed to keep migrating humpback whales from becoming tangled in fishing gear. Entanglements once killed as many as 20 of the federally protected whales in a season, said ...

The Dungeness crab season in the Bay Area is back. It's getting off to a late start this year. The opening is scheduled for ...