Commercial crab season for Pescadero through Sonoma County starts today:
On Wednesday [December 15], the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it would open up the coast between Pigeon Point in San Mateo County and the Sonoma-Mendocino county line to commercial Dungeness crab fishing on Dec. 29. Though fishing there usually starts Nov. 15, it has remained closed to protect endangered whales, mostly humpbacks, from getting injured by fishing gear after they were found to be in high numbers off the coast.
Apparently the crab that was in stores earlier was from Mendocino County, where the season opened December 1.
Has anyone been out to the seafood markets today? Any sense of what the prices are this year?