Commercial Dungeness crab season will officially come to a close in the state next week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday.
The CDFW on June 20 will close crabbing in Zone 1 and 2, which comprises the California-Oregon border to the Sonoma-Mendocino County line.
The commercial season ended earlier for areas south of the county line, with the Bay Area crabbing season ending in April.
The reason is to minimize the risk of humpback whales getting entangled in fishing nets, CDFW officials said. The whales forage off the coast, increasing the risk of entanglement.
According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, 24 confirmed whales were entangled off the California coast in 2024. Dungeness crab pots were the most documented cause, totaling 11 known entanglements, and humpback whales were the most entrapped whales.
One of the most recent entanglements took place in October, when a humpback whale was entangled in crab traps off the coast of Monterey, NOAA officials said. It took the Large Whale Entanglement Response Network, a group of scientific and nonprofit organizations that respond to whale entanglements, six months to free the whale due to inclement weather and the whale’s movements, which at times made it inaccessible to rescue teams.
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I clearly missed yesterday's article. The family appear to be upset with all parties involved.
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