The north Oregon coast opens to commercial Dungeness crabbing on Dec. 31st from Cape Falcon to the Washington border. Fisherman can begin setting their crab pots on Sunday, Dec. 28th. The Oregon ...

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 ...

Washington will open up the southernmost portion of its coast – from Klipsan Beach south to the Oregon border – on 31 ...

After at least four humpback whales were entangled this year in Oregon commercial Dungeness crab fishing gear, conservation groups are petitioning the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Dungeness crab season has officially kicked ...

The state’s coastal commercial Dungeness crab season is underway, following months of test fishing and data gathering by the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Commercial fishing for Dungeness crab, usually a centerpiece of Christmas dinners in Northern California, will open Jan. 5 in central California waters, the state Department of Fish ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in Northern and Central California has been delayed for a second time, until at least mid-December, by the California Department of Fish ...

The season will open later than its traditional start to protect whales in fishing zones off of the Bay Area coast.

CDFW is also lifting the temporary recreational crab trap restriction beginning Jan. 2, 2026, at 8:01 a.m., between the California/Oregon border and Cape Mendocino (40°10’ N. latitude) and between the ...