Bay Area commercial Dungeness crab season starts Sunday after delays

January 4, 2025 Pacific

The opening is scheduled for Sunday, January 5. Crab season usually opens in mid-November. The opening is scheduled for Sunday, January 5. Crab season usually opens in mid-November. Usually, the season opens in the middle of November, but it was delayed by migrating whales. Crab fisherman Mike Harvie is happy to be back at work. On Thursday, he and his crew loaded up his 58-foot boat, F/V Vaya Con Dios, and headed out. They dropped 250 pots down on the ocean floor. They’ll wait until Sunday to start harvesting. He and his crew have already made two trips to put their gear out. Video, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:40

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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