Bodega Bay Crab Fleet to Sit Out Dungeness Opener to Avoid Whales, Urging Other Ports to do Same.jpg)
Bodega Bay’s commercial crabbing fleet has agreed to voluntarily forgo Friday’s scheduled Dungeness crab season opener, an extraordinary step aimed to avoid potentially harmful encounters with endangered humpback whales that have yet to leave the area their winter home off the coast of Mexico.
The Bodega Bay fleet, which was unanimous in its decision Tuesday, is hoping to persuade nearby ports to follow suit, resisting the urge to get out on the water for the time being, given aerial surveys...
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