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Craving Local Dungeness Crab for the Holidays? You’ll Need to Get It Yourself

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A man in an orange raincoat holds up two crabs.
Blair Wilmer, a crew member on Dick Ogg's boat, shows off a few of their Dungeness crab on Nov. 16, 2021. (Amy Mayer/KQED)

Many Bay Area families swear by local Dungeness crab at the holiday dinner table. But for the seventh straight year, commercial crabbing season has been delayed — this time until January.

So if you really want local crab for the holidays, you’ll need to either pay for a chartered boat or catch one yourself.

This episode originally aired on Nov. 25, 2024.


Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.

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