The final two fishing zones open for commercial Dungeness crab fishing on the Northern California’s coast will close for the season after a humpback whale was entangled, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced in a news release Friday.
The closure, which applies to North Coast waters from the Oregon border to the Sonoma-Mendocino county line, takes effect at 6 p.m. June 20, CDFW officials said.
Commercial Dungeness crab vessels can retrieve traps that are abandoned, lost or damaged in the closed zones starting at 6 a.m. June 27…