SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the business Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh yr in a row to guard humpback whales from changing into entangled in lure and buoy strains.

The state Division of Fish and Wildlife stated Friday that business crabbing can be delayed till at the very least Dec. 1. The scenario can be reassessed on or round Nov. 15.

It’s the newest delay for the beginning of the business season, which historically begins in mid-November for waters between the Mendocino county line and the border with Mexico.

In the meantime the leisure take of Dungeness crab utilizing traps can be quickly restricted in some areas when the leisure season opens Nov. 2, officers stated. Leisure crabbers will have the ability to use different strategies, together with hoop nets and crab snares.

The business crab trade is one among California’s main fisheries and the shellfish is particularly in style across the holidays.

Humpback whales can get caught within the vertical ropes linked to heavy business traps, which they will drag round for months, leaving them injured, starved or so exhausted that they will drown.

Humpback whales migrate north yearly from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, the place they start calves. In spring, summer time and fall the humpbacks feed on anchovies, sardines and krill off the California coast earlier than heading again south.

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