Grab your cooler! Off-the-boat Dungeness crab sales start Sunday

Crab boil, anyone?

After weeks of impatient waiting, San Franciscans will finally be able to get their hands on our preeminent local delicacy: fresh-off-the-boat Dungeness crab. Direct-to-the-public sales of crab will start Sunday at 6 a.m., the Port of San Francisco says.

This is the fourth year that crabbers are selling their catches directly to customers at Fisherman’s Wharf. San Francisco-based captain Shawn Chen Flading said three boats will be at the Pier 47 sales dock Sunday. Customers can expect to pay $11 per pound; Flading estimates that each crab will cost between $20 and $25…

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