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First Dungeness Crabs of the Season!

The Dungeness crab season is officially open on the West Coast, and we managed to catch our first crabs of the season! In this video, we take you along as we crab snare from shore and land our very ...
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I caught 30 Dungeness crabs!

The 25/26 Dungeness Crab Season kicked off strong with a successful outing at around 120 FOW, yielding some nets with over 8 ...
This Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2025-2026 season in our area. Commercial Dungeness crabbing, scheduled to open Nov. 15, is likely to be delayed. In order ...
The recreational crabbing season has opened in southern Humboldt County, after a delay surrounding elevated levels of domoic ...
A trap restriction is in place in the northernmost part of the state due to the risk of whale and sea turtle entanglements.
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 ...
SANTA CRUZ — After the commercial Dungeness crab season was delayed due to the presence of humpback whales in the region, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will reopen next ...
The start of the commercial Dungeness crab harvest was postponed Friday, marking the sixth consecutive season of delays to protect endangered marine life and sidelining fishing fleets from Sonoma ...
The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. The state ...
The commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in the San Francisco region will be delayed to protect whales from getting tangled in trap gear, state regulators said Friday. The use of traps was ...