SF News State Agency Giving Fishermen ‘Ropeless’ Dungeness Crab Traps, So the Season Won’t Keep Getting Delayed The California Ocean Protection Council has authorized a couple million dollars to give fishermen whale-safe, ropeless Dungeness crab traps, in hopes of stopping the constant delays to crab season.
SF News Dungeness Crab Season Finally Starts Today, Fishermen Selling Crab Right Off the Boat The many-times-delayed local Dungeness crab season is finally here, and fishermen are selling the crab straight off the boat down at Fisherman’s Wharf Piers 45 and 47.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Will Finally Begin Next Week Another avalanche hit Palisades Tahoe Thursday; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is running for state treasurer; and Dungeness crab season will finally begin on January 18 after many delays.
SF News California Could Get An Official State Crustacean: The Dungeness Crab, Of Course A new bill in the state legislature aims to add Metacarcinus magister, aka Dungeness crab, to the list of official state symbols.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Again, This Time Until Mid-December The Commercial Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed again, this time due partly to poor meat quality found in samples, and due to humpback whales still migrating south.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, Dungeness Crab Season Has Been Delayed For the Fifth Year In a Row Lest we had any hope that new-fangled crab pots or some innovation might help the industry start the season earlier this year, state wildlife officials announced Friday that our local Dungeness crab season will be delayed, yet again.
SF News Amateur Dungeness Crab Poachers Taking Uber to Half Moon Bay Beach Pose Threat to Crab Population Hundreds of crab bandits have been illegally swarming a Half Moon Bay beach to poach Dungeness crab out of season. They not only risk a nearly $500 fine, they’re also screwing up the hatching season and threatening the crab population.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Want to Buy Fresh Dungeness Crab Straight From a Boat, You'll Need to Wake Up Early on the Weekend Now that we are finally (finally!) in Dungeness crab season, it's time to take advantage of the new policy that lets you go down to Fisherman's Wharf and buy crab directly from crab fishermen, right off the boat.
SF News On Eve of Dungeness Crab Season, Two Local Fishermen Have Invention To Stop Delaying Dungeness Crab Season As Dungeness crab season has been delayed again for the seemingly umpteenth year in a row, two Bay Area fishermen say they have a new crab trap design that ensures the safety of whales, and could make Thanksgiving Dungeness crab a thing again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Can Buy Fresh Local Dungeness Crab Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday marks the official — very late — start to Dungeness crab fishing season for the coastal waters off the San Francisco Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. And that mean's today you'll also get to buy crab directly from crab fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Opens For SF/Sonoma Coast Before NYE Local Dungeness crab will again be available before New Year's, the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors has voted to limit residential development in an agricultural area, and the Senate has just confirmed two of Biden's appointees to the Ninth Circuit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: You Can Now Buy Crabs Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Whenever Dungeness season begins you can now buy crabs right off of boats in San Francisco, Comcast still won't say what the root cause of Monday's outage was, and Atherton is still the nation's most expensive zip code.
SF News You May Soon Be Able to Buy Dungeness Crab Right Off a Boat in SF If an updated proposal gets greenlit by the Port Commission, San Franciscans might have the chance to do something they previously couldn’t: Buy fresh, still-alive Dungeness crab — straight from commercial fishing vessels at Fisherman's Wharf.
Arts & Entertainment Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Came to NorCal to Go Crabbing Last Weekend It must have been Gavin Rossdale's weekend with the kids, and Gwen Stefani and her new fiancé Blake Shelton were up in Monterey over the weekend where they went out fishing and crabbing with a local guide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Until After Thanksgiving, For Yet Another Year Fresh-caught Dungeness crab will not be on your Thanksgiving menu, as all commercial fishing is delayed in our region until December 1.
SF News Ocean Acidification Is Literally Dissolving The Shells Of Dungeness Crabs San Franciscans fawn over Dungeness crab. Cracking their carapaces and dunking the retrieved meat into melted butter, consuming these crustaceans is a local right of passage. But if our oceans continue to acidify, that bit of ceremony could go the way of Friday nights once spent at Blockbusters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Opens In the Bay Area Following Whale-Related Delay Look for the local Dungeness crab to start popping up on more menus across town as the commercial crab-fishing season was just, finally, given the green light to begin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Until December 15 To Protect Whales No crab for Thanksgiving! Commercial Dungeness crab season is getting delayed for a second time, this time until mid-December, out of concern for the safety of migrating whales who are lingering along the Northern California coast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Year's Dungeness Crab Season Delayed A Week To Better Protect Whales In an attempt to safeguard marine life, the commercial harvesting season for California’s Dungeness crab will be postponed until November 22nd, a full week past its original start date.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat Some Delicious Dungeness Crab As Crab Season Officially Kicks Off You may have missed or forgotten the news because of something or other going on in the world, but Dungeness crab season kicked off Tuesday for commercial fisherman, meaning that fresh, delectable crabs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hooray! Local Dungeness Crab Will Be Ready For Picking Come Thanksgiving Continuing a long Bay Area tradition of bringing freshly caught Dungeness crab to the Thanksgiving table as crab season first opens, we will once again get to crack some shells and suck on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season May Not Be Ruined This Year As Ocean Temps Fall Last year's disastrous local Dungeness crab season in which fisheries were not allowed to open until March, typically the natural end of the season in these parts is not likely to be repeated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Dungeness Crab Finally Back In Restaurants Next Week Nearly six weeks after the recreational crab fishing ban was lifted for local waters around the Bay Area, the commercial Dungeness crab fishing ban finally ends on March 26. As the Chronicle reports,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area To Finally Enjoy Some Local Dungeness Crab This Month Get ready to feed on some crab at long last, crab lovers. The health warning that shut down local crab fisheries since November has been lifted, and it looks like the commercial Dungeness
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Some Dungeness Crab Now Safe To Eat, But Not Near The Bay Area As foretold back in November, Dungeness crab remains something you do not want to be eating out of local waters this season, and an update advisory from the state Public Health Department confirms
