Crabs Credit: CDFW October 25, 2025 - The recreational Dungeness crab season will open beginning Nov. 1, 2025, except in northern California where it has been delayed due to a public health hazard.

The past three years have marked the most challenging period for Xie Dandan and her family, who have spent over a decade ...

A three-month experimental fishing season off the California coast allowed a catch of 229,000 pounds of Dungeness crab with no harm to whales, officials say. A three-month trial of whale-friendly ...

The recreational Dungeness crab season is set to open Nov. 1, except in Northern California, where it has been delayed for ...

(CN) — The recreational Dungeness crab season is returning next month to California, with restrictions.

Question: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net people use for ...

Recreation Dungeness crab season will open on Nov. 1 along the coast of the Central Coast and the Monterey Bay, but with some ...

Join us for day one of a three-part series exploring Crescent City, CA. After an 8-hour road trip from San Francisco to the Oregon border, we set out to catch Dungeness Crab using hoop nets and ...

While NOAA Fisheries blamed climate change for the dramatic decline of the crabs, crabbers said they’ve also been victimized by inaccurate data and poor management decisions. Crabbers and ...

Rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns are threatening China’s prized hairy crab industry, forcing farmers at ...

During Florida's stone crab season, which starts Oct. 15, fishers eager to collect the treasured delicacy can start scooping them up — provided they remove the claws and toss the crustacean back into ...