Crabbing is still slow but not dead. The Dungeness have been clutching, as they tend to around this time of year, but that should be ending and they can go back to eating. Luckily, not all the crab are interested in making little crabs, so there's still been some Dungeness getting caught. Crab snares are catching some but not as many as the boats, as usual. The whales are on their way back and traps will probably close here next month, as they're already closing traps below Pigeon Point on March 27th at 6:00 PM. If you haven't used your traps yet this year I'd plan on doing it before tax day. 

    There will be salmon season this year. It will open on April 11 and close on May 15 below Pigeon Point. The season post-May 15 is to be determined. In the San Francisco sub-area, Point Arena to Pigeon Point, it appears that our season will start in either May or June with a few weeks on and a few weeks off until the quota of 31,200 to 34,000 salmon are close to being caught, in which case the season will end. We may even get a second chance at them in September for a second quota of 20,000 fish. Of course, all this can change.