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Dungeness Crab

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Final Calif. area opens for Dungeness crab fishing

NF Staff

Passports given to visitors who participate in the Storms and Seafood Festival allow them to mark which dishes they have been served and where. Photo courtesy of Westport Marina

Storms, seafood, and a working waterfront

Carli Stewart

One of the Port Orford’s two new 50-ton cranes lifts a boat out of the water. Commissioned on November 30, just in time for the December 16 Dungeness crab opening. The new cranes saw a few days of 24-hour-a-day service as the boat got their traps out. Pho

Harborless Port Orford gets new cranes to lift boats onto its “Dolly Dock”

Paul Molyneaux

Dungeness crabs caught off California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo.

Calif. Dungeness crab fishery opens in parts of the North Coast

NF Staff

Crab traps loaded aboard a fishing boat in Eureka, CA, in preparation for the Dungeness crab season. Photo by Shutterstock

San Francisco Dungeness crab season stalls again

Carli Stewart

The commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open in Central California on Jan 5., 2026. CDFW photo.

Dungeness crab season to open Jan. 5 in Central California

NF Staff

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Petition urges more protections for whales in Dungeness crab fisheries

Margaret Bauman

The Coast Guard will maintain helicopter operations based at Newport, Ore., for the duration of the 2025 Dungeness crab fishing season, Adm. Kevin Lunday told Oregon senators Dec. 12. Coast Guard photo/PO3 Hunter Schnable.

Coast Guard says helicopter operations continue at Newport

NF Staff

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

Oregon Dungeness fishermen will be hauling in time for the holidays

Carli Stewart

A federal judge issued a temporary order Nov. 24 to return a Coast Guard rescue helicopter to its forward operating base at Newport, Ore., before the start of the Dungeness crab fishing season. Coast Guard photo.

Federal judge says Coast Guard helicopter must return to Newport

NF Staff

From an idea to a drawing to reality, Full Time Fabrication turns fisherman, Jordan Wilson’s dream into a fast and versatile coast crabber, ready for Puget Sound and the deeper waters offshore. TJ Lowry photo.

Full Time Fabrication floats a new crab boat design

Paul Molyneaux