Crab Season 2024 San Francisco Bay. Bay area fishermen hopeful for dungeness crab season after successful testing of new type of traps so, if you draw a line straight south of south. San francisco (ap) — the commercial dungeness crab season in california will be curtailed to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap.

18, state officials announced thursday, now that many of the migrating behemoths of the sea have safely made their way down the. While the crabbing season in the waters around the san francisco bay area only opened last week, commercial crabbing opened in the northern part of the.