The docks were relatively quiet Saturday afternoon along the Central Coast on the first day of commercial crab season.
One fisherman at the Santa Cruz Harbor loaded up pots onto his boat in preparation to go out. Meanwhile, another group was busy adjusting the lights at the top of a boat and a third spent the afternoon preparing bait for the crab pots.
The pots — traps used to collect crabs — were stacked high at the harbor docks, waiting to be loaded onto the back of boats.
