https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/12/20/dungeness-crab-season-for-californias-far-north-counties-will-open-jan-5/ > State officials announced Wednesday that California’s long-delayed Dungeness crab season will be allowed to open Jan. 5 in the state’s northernmost counties — Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte. > However, commercial crabbing from the Sonoma/Mendocino county line south to the Mexican border will remain on hold because of the risk of migrating humpback whales becoming tangled in fishing lines.