The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA (https://mendovoice.com/tag/crab-season/)
High numbers of whales off the California coast and low quality crab meat in testing are keeping the commercial fishery closed.
The Lost and Abandoned Gear Removal Program will start pulling crab traps out of the waters off of Humboldt and Mendocino counties April 27.
Commercial Dungeness crab season opened on time Tuesday night, for the first time since the 2014-2015 season, but at least one local fisherman says the volume of crab here isn’t what it used to be.
Dungeness crab season officially started on Saturday, but with some new regulations intended to limit the marine life that ends up entangled in fishing gear.
