California Dungeness Crab Season 2024. The california department of fish and wildlife (cdfw) will open the commercial dungeness crab fishery from the sonoma/mendocino county line to the u.s./mexico border (central management area:. The commercial dungeness crab season in california will be curtailed to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines, officials.

The director may modify the dungeness crab season due to marine life entanglement risk (fgc §8276.1 and §132.8, title 14, ccr) and/or delay the season in districts 6, 7, 8,. 18, state officials announced thursday, now that many of the migrating behemoths of the.