Sonoma County’s commercial crab fleet is expected to begin fishing this weekend after a strike over prices paid at the dock has delayed the harvest.
Crab associations in Bodega Bay, San Francisco and Half Moon Bay announced last week the fleets were sitting out this week’s opening because buyers had refused to commit to what they considered to be a fair price.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife had already pushed back the traditional November opening by nearly two months due to concerns over entanglements with migrating whales so the added delay is painful…