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Dec. 14—Oregon's commercial Dungeness crab fishery opens Dec. 16 from Cape Foulweather, just south of Depoe Bay, to the California border, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ...
The Dungeness crab industry is an important fishery on the Pacific coast, with 53 million pounds (24 million kilograms) worth $170 million being harvested in 2014. [6] In 1980, the central California fishery was badly affected; Carcinonemertes errans was implicated, with 50% of the crabs' eggs produced each year being predated.
Dungeness crab ready to eat at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco. The Dungeness crab is considered a delicacy in the United States and Canada. [13] [14] Long before the area was settled by Europeans, Indigenous peoples throughout the crustacean's range had the crab as a traditional part of their diet and harvested them every year at low tide. [15]
Shellfish poisoning includes four syndromes that share some common features and are primarily associated with bivalve molluscs (such as mussels, clams, oysters and scallops.) [1] As filter feeders, these shellfish may accumulate toxins produced by microscopic organisms, such as cyanobacteria, diatoms and dinoflagellates.
FILE - Fresh Dungeness crabs are displayed at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the sixth year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines.
The graceful rock crab or slender crab, Metacarcinus gracilis (the naming convention recognized by WoRMS) or Cancer gracilis (the naming convention recognized by ITIS), is one of two members of the genus Metacarcinus, with white tipped chelae (claws). The second crab in the genus to have white tipped claws is M. magister (Dungeness crab). [2]
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