State delays Mendocino coast commercial crab season to January to protect whales

A fleet of fishing boats, including one named "Blackhawk," is docked in a harbor with vehicles parked along a wooded shoreline.

Fort Bragg’s commercial crab boats won’t fish on Dec. 1. California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife pushed back the commercial Dungeness crab season to at least Jan. 1, 2027, along the whole coast from the Oregon border to Point Conception in Santa Barbara County.

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