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But many, like Shawn Chen Flading, have struggled over the last five years as the state has consecutively delayed the commercial season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every delay is difficult. Right now, I have zero income as a fisherman,” Flading said. He told KQED that he’s been working side jobs to financially stay afloat. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shawn Chen Flading, fisher, San Francisco\"]‘Every delay is difficult. Right now, I have zero income as a fisherman.’[/pullquote]The season, which has historically started on Nov. 15, is delayed until at least New Year’s Day to protect migrating humpback whales. Crabbers like Flading hope to catch the tail end of the holidays to recoup what they’ve lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also primetime for crab sales as many San Franciscans prepare festive meals that feature the crustacean as opposed to turkey or ham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something people like to splurge on to create a feast,” Flading said. “But with the delay, we’ve lost all the holiday markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Dungeness crab sales topped $20 million in California. The state also exports Dungeness crab to neighboring states and abroad (last year, the state sold $4 million worth of Dungeness crab to China). But this season’s delay has hampered the export market, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of Washington importing California crabs, they’re selling crabs to California,” said John Barnett, president of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970016 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Large red crabs sit in ice.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab sits in a display case at The Crab Station in Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imported crabs from Washington currently sold on the Wharf are about twice as expensive as local ones — up to $27 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone just looks at the price, and then they just leave,” said Timothy But, who works at the Crab Station, a restaurant on the Wharf. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Timothy But, employee, The Crab Station, a restaurant at Fisherman’s Wharf\"]‘Everyone just looks at the price, and then they just leave.’[/pullquote]Don MacFarlane, owner of Sabella and La Torre, a 96-year-old seafood restaurant on the Wharf, said his business also relies on the holidays to make extra cash by selling crab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a ripple effect,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed the season in recent years due to the presence of humpback whales off California waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab traps pose a threat to humpback whales, blue whales, and leatherback sea turtles — all animals listed under the Endangered Species Act. Commercial Crab fishing gear, which consists of a trap that rests on the ocean floor and is connected by a line that leads to a buoy, can entangle these animals and cause injury or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of crab pots are seen stacked up beside a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty crab pots sit outside of Flannery Seafood on Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2015–16 season, a noted rise in entanglements of mostly humpback whales prompted the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity to sue the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleged that the organizations failed to prevent the animals from becoming entangled. The parties eventually settled in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the department must delay the season if the animals are found swimming off the coast in high enough numbers or if too many animals get entangled in fishing gear over a set period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years since the settlement agreement was enacted, the start of every commercial Dungeness Crab season in the state has been delayed. [aside label='More Stories on Dungeness Crab' tag='dungeness-crab']Migrating humpback whales are now starting their southward journey later in the year and coming closer to shore than before. In previous decades, they headed south by the start of the crab season, but climate change is affecting the timing of that migration, according to Jordan Traverso, deputy director of communications, education and outreach for the Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traverso said the spike in entanglements seen in 2015 and 2016 was, in part, caused by abnormally warm waters bringing whales closer to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a number of things going on that are making it so that our seasons don’t really match up with the calendar year that they have been expected to for a really long time,” Traverso said. “Nov. 15 is a lot warmer than it has been. There’s different food sources in the ocean than we were normally expecting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/marine-mammal-stock-assessment-reports-species-stock\">reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> show humpback whale populations have steadily increased in recent decades, recovering from when they were nearly hunted to extinction by the commercial whaling industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boat docked in a harbor is seen through a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Fisherman’s Wharf from Shawn Chen Flading’s boat near Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More whales, combined with their changing migration patterns, have crabbers worried that a crab season that opens in time for the holidays is now a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whales are doing fantastic. It’s the commercial fishermen that are really becoming extinct,” Flading said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flading is also a member of the California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group, a group of fishermen, environmentalists, scientists, and state officials that guides the state on how to best prevent whale entanglements. That includes changing crabbing practices, like keeping lines taut, retrieving gear promptly, and avoiding areas where whales are spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a commercial fleet feel very comfortable doing our best practices to limit the interactions and not have any kind of bad effect on the growing population,” Flading said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shawn Chen Flading, fisher, San Francisco\"]‘I love the adventure of it, the freedom of it., it’s something I love to do. And now, trying to make a living out of it, it’s been really rough.’[/pullquote]To change this, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife could submit a conservation plan, called an Incidental Take Permit, to the federal government. This permit would allow for a small number of humpbacks to be unintentionally killed by commercial crabbing — as long as the state can show it would have a negligible impact on the overall whale population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife has been working on an application but has not yet submitted it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Fish and Wildlife Spokesperson Traverso told KQED in an email that the department expects the conservation plan to resemble the current management plan responsible for the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crabbers are hopeful that as Humpback populations continue to increase, the regulations will no longer be necessary. In the meantime, crabbers like Flading want to get back out on the water and pursue their passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the adventure of it, the freedom of it, it’s something I love to do,” he said. “And now, trying to make a living out of it, it’s been really rough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary assessment and management recommendation by \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=218183&inline\">the California Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday\u003c/a> recommended that the commercial crab season open on Jan. 5, north of Sonoma County, with a 50% reduction in the amount of traps crabbers can use. From Sonoma County south to the border with Mexico, the Department recommends delaying the season further, citing the ongoing presence of humpback whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dungeness crab season is delayed until at least New Year’s Day, hurting local businesses, including restaurants and crabbers at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1702929430,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1298},"headData":{"title":"Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Again, SF Crabbers Miss Holiday Haul | KQED","description":"Dungeness crab season is delayed until at least New Year’s Day, hurting local businesses, including restaurants and crabbers at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/db661bfa-6c24-49ba-a6ef-b0d00116cd91/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11970092/dungeness-crab-season-delayed-again-sf-crabbers-miss-holiday-haul","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For decades, fishers have earned a living selling Dungeness crab out of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. But many, like Shawn Chen Flading, have struggled over the last five years as the state has consecutively delayed the commercial season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every delay is difficult. Right now, I have zero income as a fisherman,” Flading said. He told KQED that he’s been working side jobs to financially stay afloat. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Every delay is difficult. Right now, I have zero income as a fisherman.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Shawn Chen Flading, fisher, San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The season, which has historically started on Nov. 15, is delayed until at least New Year’s Day to protect migrating humpback whales. Crabbers like Flading hope to catch the tail end of the holidays to recoup what they’ve lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also primetime for crab sales as many San Franciscans prepare festive meals that feature the crustacean as opposed to turkey or ham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something people like to splurge on to create a feast,” Flading said. “But with the delay, we’ve lost all the holiday markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Dungeness crab sales topped $20 million in California. The state also exports Dungeness crab to neighboring states and abroad (last year, the state sold $4 million worth of Dungeness crab to China). But this season’s delay has hampered the export market, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of Washington importing California crabs, they’re selling crabs to California,” said John Barnett, president of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970016 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Large red crabs sit in ice.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-01-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab sits in a display case at The Crab Station in Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imported crabs from Washington currently sold on the Wharf are about twice as expensive as local ones — up to $27 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone just looks at the price, and then they just leave,” said Timothy But, who works at the Crab Station, a restaurant on the Wharf. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Everyone just looks at the price, and then they just leave.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Timothy But, employee, The Crab Station, a restaurant at Fisherman’s Wharf","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Don MacFarlane, owner of Sabella and La Torre, a 96-year-old seafood restaurant on the Wharf, said his business also relies on the holidays to make extra cash by selling crab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a ripple effect,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed the season in recent years due to the presence of humpback whales off California waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab traps pose a threat to humpback whales, blue whales, and leatherback sea turtles — all animals listed under the Endangered Species Act. Commercial Crab fishing gear, which consists of a trap that rests on the ocean floor and is connected by a line that leads to a buoy, can entangle these animals and cause injury or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11970018 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of crab pots are seen stacked up beside a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-05-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty crab pots sit outside of Flannery Seafood on Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2015–16 season, a noted rise in entanglements of mostly humpback whales prompted the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity to sue the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleged that the organizations failed to prevent the animals from becoming entangled. The parties eventually settled in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the department must delay the season if the animals are found swimming off the coast in high enough numbers or if too many animals get entangled in fishing gear over a set period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years since the settlement agreement was enacted, the start of every commercial Dungeness Crab season in the state has been delayed. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Dungeness Crab ","tag":"dungeness-crab"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Migrating humpback whales are now starting their southward journey later in the year and coming closer to shore than before. In previous decades, they headed south by the start of the crab season, but climate change is affecting the timing of that migration, according to Jordan Traverso, deputy director of communications, education and outreach for the Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traverso said the spike in entanglements seen in 2015 and 2016 was, in part, caused by abnormally warm waters bringing whales closer to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a number of things going on that are making it so that our seasons don’t really match up with the calendar year that they have been expected to for a really long time,” Traverso said. “Nov. 15 is a lot warmer than it has been. There’s different food sources in the ocean than we were normally expecting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/marine-mammal-stock-assessment-reports-species-stock\">reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> show humpback whale populations have steadily increased in recent decades, recovering from when they were nearly hunted to extinction by the commercial whaling industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A boat docked in a harbor is seen through a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231212-crabseason-25-bl-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Fisherman’s Wharf from Shawn Chen Flading’s boat near Pier 45 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More whales, combined with their changing migration patterns, have crabbers worried that a crab season that opens in time for the holidays is now a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whales are doing fantastic. It’s the commercial fishermen that are really becoming extinct,” Flading said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flading is also a member of the California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group, a group of fishermen, environmentalists, scientists, and state officials that guides the state on how to best prevent whale entanglements. That includes changing crabbing practices, like keeping lines taut, retrieving gear promptly, and avoiding areas where whales are spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a commercial fleet feel very comfortable doing our best practices to limit the interactions and not have any kind of bad effect on the growing population,” Flading said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I love the adventure of it, the freedom of it., it’s something I love to do. And now, trying to make a living out of it, it’s been really rough.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Shawn Chen Flading, fisher, San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To change this, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife could submit a conservation plan, called an Incidental Take Permit, to the federal government. This permit would allow for a small number of humpbacks to be unintentionally killed by commercial crabbing — as long as the state can show it would have a negligible impact on the overall whale population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife has been working on an application but has not yet submitted it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Fish and Wildlife Spokesperson Traverso told KQED in an email that the department expects the conservation plan to resemble the current management plan responsible for the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crabbers are hopeful that as Humpback populations continue to increase, the regulations will no longer be necessary. In the meantime, crabbers like Flading want to get back out on the water and pursue their passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the adventure of it, the freedom of it, it’s something I love to do,” he said. “And now, trying to make a living out of it, it’s been really rough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary assessment and management recommendation by \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=218183&inline\">the California Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday\u003c/a> recommended that the commercial crab season open on Jan. 5, north of Sonoma County, with a 50% reduction in the amount of traps crabbers can use. From Sonoma County south to the border with Mexico, the Department recommends delaying the season further, citing the ongoing presence of humpback whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11970092/dungeness-crab-season-delayed-again-sf-crabbers-miss-holiday-haul","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_255","news_30489","news_19172","news_33661","news_27626","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11970021","label":"news"},"news_11944369":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11944369","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11944369","score":null,"sort":[1679565659000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-do-people-fish-off-highway-101-near-brisbane","title":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane?","publishDate":1679565659,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3TDw90P\">\u003cem>Read the transcript of this episode here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you drive on Highway 101 between South San Francisco and Candlestick Park, there’s a stretch of road that gets very straight and runs right next to the bay. The road has a big shoulder in this section, including a wide section of dirt with “No Parking” signs placed every 50 feet or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Eyra Dordi drives this stretch of highway almost every day on her commute to work. She often sees cars parked along the side of the road, despite the signs and the hazardous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized there are people out there fishing really frequently,” Dordi said. “And I was really curious as to why anyone would decide that was the spot in the bay that they wanted to have a nice, relaxing fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dordi also wondered why fishermen and women would risk getting a parking ticket to fish here. It’s illegal to park on the side of any freeway due to safety concerns. The fine starts at $238, but could be more for repeat offenses, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing ‘the tubes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It turns out there’s a very good reason fisherfolk are willing to risk the hazards of traffic and CHP officers at this spot along 101 — the fishing can be \u003cem>great.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/aZUWvFzT5ct2jbC38\">the tubes\u003c/a>,” said Anthony Spears Sr., an avid fisherman who happens to also be the facility services supervisor at KQED. “For years we’ve fished there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the deal: There are two concrete viaducts — “the tubes” — that connect the bay to \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/MuTVTBfL33vHQjbW8\">Brisbane Lagoon\u003c/a>, located on the inland side of the freeway. The tubes run under the freeway, allowing water to flow back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the tide’s coming up, the water is flowing into the small pond on the other side. And then as the tide is going out, that same flow is going out into the bay,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944378 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg\" alt=\"Two square tubes coming horizontally out of an embankment open up to the Brisbane Lagoon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water in ‘the tubes’ flows from Brisbane Lagoon, under an access road and Highway 101, before reaching the San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smaller fish, like herring, swim into the lagoon to spawn in quieter waters that are more protected. But when the tide flows out, they are washed back out into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger fish like halibut and striped bass, as well as stingrays, wait near the bayside opening of the tubes for an easy meal. And human fisherfolk wait there, too, eager to snag some delicious halibut or striped bass. It’s the whole food chain, concentrated in one spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the parking is illegal, people can still fish from boats, or walk to accessible points nearby legally. Or they can fish on the lagoon side of the tubes, where there’s a small park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spears remembers fishing the tubes as a kid with his dad, and then later with his best friend, Tony. They’re both still avid fishermen, although Spears lives further from the tubes now and so doesn’t stop to fish there as often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only fish there once a year,” said Albert Chu, a fisherman I met along Ocean Beach. “That is when the herring are there. Usually around January or February. It’s a good eating fish. Very healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing around the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While some Bay Area residents, like Spears and Chu, have been fishing for a long time, others are just getting into it. Popular fishing YouTube channels like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7WFw42VnywQRvewSq29eg\">Fisherman’s Life\u003c/a>, as well as Facebook groups dedicated to crabbing or fishing off the Pacifica pier, have made fishing feel more accessible. During the coronavirus pandemic when people were looking for socially distant activities, fishing suddenly became appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98y8FV7Pe20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s water everywhere and it’s all different,” Spears said. “There’s freshwater, there’s brackish water, there’s saltwater, there’s the bay, there’s the ocean. There’s a great variety of fish and a great variety of styles of fishing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be why it’s easy to spot fisherfolk spaced out every 20 feet all along San Francisco’s Ocean Beach snaring for crabs. Snaring means they use a fishing pole with bait in a little wire box at the end of the line that has wire hooks coming off it. The fisher casts the line into the waves and hopes the bait will attract a crab that will then get caught in the loops. When the fisher sees the line strain, he hauls in the crab, measures it to make sure it’s big enough to keep and then stores it in a cooler with some seawater to keep it alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man, woman and child smiling for the camera on a beach. They are wearing waders for fishing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Kennedy (center) on Ocean Beach with her husband and grandson, who were snaring crabs. Kennedy has been fishing for 30 years. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other people prefer to take crab pots out on kayaks, stand-up paddle boards or boats to try for a bigger haul. The important thing is to have a fishing license (unless you are fishing from a pier — then you don’t need one) and to be on the ocean side of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re interested in trying your hand at fishing, stop and talk to one of the many folks fishing around the Bay on any day. Most of them are very nice and willing to give pointers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Why do people love this popular fishing spot, right next to an eight-lane highway?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531638,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":955},"headData":{"title":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane? | KQED","description":"Why do people love this popular fishing spot, right next to an eight-lane highway?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious/","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/EBCBFA/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC1709224384.mp3?updated=1679532171","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11944369/why-do-people-fish-off-highway-101-near-brisbane","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3TDw90P\">\u003cem>Read the transcript of this episode here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you drive on Highway 101 between South San Francisco and Candlestick Park, there’s a stretch of road that gets very straight and runs right next to the bay. The road has a big shoulder in this section, including a wide section of dirt with “No Parking” signs placed every 50 feet or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Eyra Dordi drives this stretch of highway almost every day on her commute to work. She often sees cars parked along the side of the road, despite the signs and the hazardous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized there are people out there fishing really frequently,” Dordi said. “And I was really curious as to why anyone would decide that was the spot in the bay that they wanted to have a nice, relaxing fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dordi also wondered why fishermen and women would risk getting a parking ticket to fish here. It’s illegal to park on the side of any freeway due to safety concerns. The fine starts at $238, but could be more for repeat offenses, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing ‘the tubes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It turns out there’s a very good reason fisherfolk are willing to risk the hazards of traffic and CHP officers at this spot along 101 — the fishing can be \u003cem>great.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/aZUWvFzT5ct2jbC38\">the tubes\u003c/a>,” said Anthony Spears Sr., an avid fisherman who happens to also be the facility services supervisor at KQED. “For years we’ve fished there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the deal: There are two concrete viaducts — “the tubes” — that connect the bay to \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/MuTVTBfL33vHQjbW8\">Brisbane Lagoon\u003c/a>, located on the inland side of the freeway. The tubes run under the freeway, allowing water to flow back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the tide’s coming up, the water is flowing into the small pond on the other side. And then as the tide is going out, that same flow is going out into the bay,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944378 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg\" alt=\"Two square tubes coming horizontally out of an embankment open up to the Brisbane Lagoon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water in ‘the tubes’ flows from Brisbane Lagoon, under an access road and Highway 101, before reaching the San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smaller fish, like herring, swim into the lagoon to spawn in quieter waters that are more protected. But when the tide flows out, they are washed back out into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger fish like halibut and striped bass, as well as stingrays, wait near the bayside opening of the tubes for an easy meal. And human fisherfolk wait there, too, eager to snag some delicious halibut or striped bass. It’s the whole food chain, concentrated in one spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the parking is illegal, people can still fish from boats, or walk to accessible points nearby legally. Or they can fish on the lagoon side of the tubes, where there’s a small park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spears remembers fishing the tubes as a kid with his dad, and then later with his best friend, Tony. They’re both still avid fishermen, although Spears lives further from the tubes now and so doesn’t stop to fish there as often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only fish there once a year,” said Albert Chu, a fisherman I met along Ocean Beach. “That is when the herring are there. Usually around January or February. It’s a good eating fish. Very healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing around the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While some Bay Area residents, like Spears and Chu, have been fishing for a long time, others are just getting into it. Popular fishing YouTube channels like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7WFw42VnywQRvewSq29eg\">Fisherman’s Life\u003c/a>, as well as Facebook groups dedicated to crabbing or fishing off the Pacifica pier, have made fishing feel more accessible. During the coronavirus pandemic when people were looking for socially distant activities, fishing suddenly became appealing.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/98y8FV7Pe20'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/98y8FV7Pe20'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“There’s water everywhere and it’s all different,” Spears said. “There’s freshwater, there’s brackish water, there’s saltwater, there’s the bay, there’s the ocean. There’s a great variety of fish and a great variety of styles of fishing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be why it’s easy to spot fisherfolk spaced out every 20 feet all along San Francisco’s Ocean Beach snaring for crabs. Snaring means they use a fishing pole with bait in a little wire box at the end of the line that has wire hooks coming off it. The fisher casts the line into the waves and hopes the bait will attract a crab that will then get caught in the loops. When the fisher sees the line strain, he hauls in the crab, measures it to make sure it’s big enough to keep and then stores it in a cooler with some seawater to keep it alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man, woman and child smiling for the camera on a beach. They are wearing waders for fishing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Kennedy (center) on Ocean Beach with her husband and grandson, who were snaring crabs. Kennedy has been fishing for 30 years. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other people prefer to take crab pots out on kayaks, stand-up paddle boards or boats to try for a bigger haul. The important thing is to have a fishing license (unless you are fishing from a pier — then you don’t need one) and to be on the ocean side of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re interested in trying your hand at fishing, stop and talk to one of the many folks fishing around the Bay on any day. Most of them are very nice and willing to give pointers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11944369/why-do-people-fish-off-highway-101-near-brisbane","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_19172","news_32571","news_18008"],"featImg":"news_11944387","label":"source_news_11944369"},"news_11901222":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11901222","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11901222","score":null,"sort":[1641823227000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-direct-sales-program-keeps-sf-crab-industry-afloat-after-devastating-fire","title":"San Francisco Crab Industry Kept Afloat After Devastating Fire — By Direct Sales Program","publishDate":1641823227,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In May of 2020, fisher Nick Krieger bought all new traps for the next rock crab season. He stored his new crab pots, like nearly all other fishers in San Francisco, at Pier 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, a four-alarm fire broke out at the pier. When it was finally extinguished, over 30 crabbers had lost a combined 8,000 crab, shrimp and black cod traps and pots. It essentially halted the entire crab fishery. Krieger was despondent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hadn't even put it in the water. I had it all rigged and ready to fish. The idea of just starting all over with that is kind of painful to think about,\" Krieger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-port-san-francisco-supervisor-aaron-peskin-announce-financial-assistance\">Despite some financial assistance\u003c/a>, flagging sales due to the pandemic also threatened crabbers. It seemed like some fishers, who usually catch nearly 2 million pounds of crab a year, might hang up their crab pots for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a new pilot program started by the Port of San Francisco is breathing new life into the pandemic-weary wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 29, the Port of San Francisco authorized off-the-boat Dungeness crab sales — meaning fishers can sell their catch directly to members of the public. Since that announcement a week and a half ago, the program has surpassed all expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers Matt Juanes and Bradlee Titus have been selling live, freshly caught Dungeness crab since the pilot began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's an overwhelming success. We didn't think it would be this great,\" Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901229\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a small boat from above, with two fishermen pulling crab out of a yellow box and putting them into a small plastic bag.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crabbers Matt Juanes and Bradlee Titus offload crab from their boat on San Francisco's Pier 47. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the first Sunday of sales, he stood on his boat, the Plumeria, surrounded by bubbling tanks capable of holding 400 pounds of crab. A line of about a dozen people waited to buy from him while his assistant, Bradlee Titus, handled sales, trading cash for crab while negotiating the ladder between the boat and the pier. Juanes pulled the 2-pound crabs out with his bare hands and put them in bags for his customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanes says he knew the program was something special on New Year's Eve. That day, social media posts documented long lines snaking out of Pier 47 and around the corner, down Jefferson Street, even putting the nearby, notoriously long In-N-Out line to shame. There were two boats selling that day and they both sold out, selling 1 ton between the two of them. Juanes knew they would have to bring more to satisfy demand. [aside postID=\"news_11820467\" label=\"The Pier 45 Fire Devastates Local Crabbers\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freshly caught fish, sold straight off the boat — it’s a scene as old as fishing itself. But it’s also a relatively new development in San Francisco. For years, no off-the-boat sales were permitted in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed in 2017 when the port authorized a pilot program allowing off-the-boat sales of fish — no crustaceans allowed. Seeing success last November, the port made that program permanent, and approved the pilot to sell crab off the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwin Gonzalez came from San Mateo to buy. He says buying straight from fishers is about more than just the crab itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm glad we're able to help out locals. That's the other thing. I'm trying to get the economy back up,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selling directly cuts out a lot of overhead for crabbers, so they can keep more of the profits for themselves. Juanes says he can only sell crab to a wholesaler for about $5 a pound, but he can get double that selling to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901233\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of Warehouse C on Pier 45 in Fisherman’s Wharf on May 26, 2020, after a fire destroyed the building on May 23. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was in favor of the pilot, though. Some traditional fish sellers say the pilot creates an unfair business advantage. Angela Cincotta of the historic Alioto-Lazio Fish Company spoke against it at an October 2020 port commission meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once a boat becomes a direct seller, the boat now becomes a brick-and-mortar business, just like all of ours,” Cincotta said. “The same rules should apply, but will not. For $225 a year from one boat, you will be jeopardizing the thousands of dollars you received monthly from the other brick-and-mortars. The money does not equate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominic Moreno is maritime operations manager at the Port of San Francisco. He says the program is designed to help both the fishers and the local economy.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Juanes, San Francisco crabber\"]'It's an overwhelming success. We didn't think it would be this great.'[/pullquote]“The program was set up to create a new market and not disrupt what businesses were already there,” Moreno said. “You can still get cooked Dungeness from one of the crab stands, and the wholesalers are still able to purchase their crab from the fishermen. We identified that there was a market for people who wanted to come down and buy live Dungeness crab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's especially important, as it wasn't just the Pier 45 fire that set crabbers back. The waves of bad news kept coming: The pandemic shrank tourism at the wharf, which in turn has made crab sales suffer. \u003ca href=\"https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fsftravel.ent.box.com%2Fs%2Fevn3hsrd6kub3w3sv61fjb5e5pyddtfo\">San Francisco Travel Association reports\u003c/a> total direct visitor spending sank 72% between 2019 and 2020 across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start of crab season also has been delayed in recent years in an effort to protect migrating humpback whales and leatherback turtles from getting entangled in crab fishing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Juanes says what’s good for the fishers is good for the other businesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we sold out, there were so many people here. They went to all the local restaurants and bought all their crab and sold them out. So it's a win-win for everyone,\" Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820664\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11820664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman and crabber sits aboard his boat in Fisherman's Wharf, in the aft section, in a navy blue shirt, staring out at the water.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crabber Nick Krieger sits aboard the Amigo, a fishing boat, in 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for all the fanfare from the public about this pilot, why haven’t fishers been allowed to sell their catch off the boat before? Until now, San Francisco was one of the only ports in California that didn’t allow off-the-boat sales. Fishers like Juanes and Krieger say they’ve seen crab boats leave San Francisco for places like Half Moon Bay where off-the-boat sales were permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many crabbers speculated that pressure from local restaurants and wholesalers, as well as the rise of Fisherman’s Wharf as a tourist attraction, played a role in banning off-the-boat sales previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Barnett, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association, offered another explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really infrastructure. That’s how I would explain it,” Barnett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett said that ports like Half Moon Bay and Fort Bragg are better set up for the public to find easy parking and walk straight down to the dock. Now that Fisherman’s Wharf is primarily built to cater to tourism, it’s been harder to redesign the venue. Namely, parking is now scant and expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to cook crab in a hotel room. As the wharf catered more and more to tourists, the economy shifted away from live crab to cooked crab. With the reintroduction of live Dungeness to the wharf, it brought about the return of another rare species there: locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Allen came to buy some crab after rowing at the nearby Dolphin Club. “I think it’s great for these guys. I'm glad to see they can make maybe a little extra money this way,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking crab can be entertaining, too, he said: “It's easy to cook and it's kind of fun. There's sort of a whole ritual of cracking them and sharing them and all that good stuff. So the whole experience is amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominic Moreno, of The Port of San Francisco, said it also gives the public a taste of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They appreciate the authenticity of the experience. Learning where their food comes from and talking to the people that harvested it is valuable for a lot of people that come down to buy off the boats,\" Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11253568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11253568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of cooked crab sit on a skillet as the chef in an apron watches on.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cook at Nick's Lighthouse in San Francisco prepares Dungeness crab. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fishers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/1781205035414463/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=1792080817660218\">using social media and a mobile app\u003c/a> to let the public know what and when they’re selling. And Juanes is excited to sell more than just crab, perhaps expanding to salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some hiccups in the takeoff of the pilot. The fishers can run out of crab early if there's enough demand, and keeping regular hours can be a challenge, considering they must first fish for the crab, before they can sell it. Barnett also wanted to remind the public that part of the experience of buying directly from a fisher also means you're not buying from an experienced salesperson — sometimes the process can have some kinks to iron out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only five boats are signed up for the pilot currently, fisher Nick Krieger expects that number to double in the coming months. Juanes says he and Titus are committed to being at Pier 47 selling crab every Saturday, at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port Commission will evaluate the pilot and make a decision on whether the program will continue in October of 2022. In the meantime, live Dungeness has given a reason for locals, and not just tourists, to return to the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two years after the Pier 45 fire destroyed the equipment of San Francisco crabbers, a new direct-sales program is letting them take home more profits from their crab catches.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1642107562,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1640},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Crab Industry Kept Afloat After Devastating Fire — By Direct Sales Program | KQED","description":"Two years after the Pier 45 fire destroyed the equipment of San Francisco crabbers, a new direct-sales program is letting them take home more profits from their crab catches.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11901222 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11901222","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/01/10/new-direct-sales-program-keeps-sf-crab-industry-afloat-after-devastating-fire/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Crab Industry Kept Afloat After Devastating Fire — By Direct Sales Program","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/66b3f008-fb5b-4bfa-a37c-ae1c01382366/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11901222/new-direct-sales-program-keeps-sf-crab-industry-afloat-after-devastating-fire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In May of 2020, fisher Nick Krieger bought all new traps for the next rock crab season. He stored his new crab pots, like nearly all other fishers in San Francisco, at Pier 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, a four-alarm fire broke out at the pier. When it was finally extinguished, over 30 crabbers had lost a combined 8,000 crab, shrimp and black cod traps and pots. It essentially halted the entire crab fishery. Krieger was despondent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hadn't even put it in the water. I had it all rigged and ready to fish. The idea of just starting all over with that is kind of painful to think about,\" Krieger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-port-san-francisco-supervisor-aaron-peskin-announce-financial-assistance\">Despite some financial assistance\u003c/a>, flagging sales due to the pandemic also threatened crabbers. It seemed like some fishers, who usually catch nearly 2 million pounds of crab a year, might hang up their crab pots for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a new pilot program started by the Port of San Francisco is breathing new life into the pandemic-weary wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 29, the Port of San Francisco authorized off-the-boat Dungeness crab sales — meaning fishers can sell their catch directly to members of the public. Since that announcement a week and a half ago, the program has surpassed all expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers Matt Juanes and Bradlee Titus have been selling live, freshly caught Dungeness crab since the pilot began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's an overwhelming success. We didn't think it would be this great,\" Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901229\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a small boat from above, with two fishermen pulling crab out of a yellow box and putting them into a small plastic bag.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_0194.JPG-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crabbers Matt Juanes and Bradlee Titus offload crab from their boat on San Francisco's Pier 47. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the first Sunday of sales, he stood on his boat, the Plumeria, surrounded by bubbling tanks capable of holding 400 pounds of crab. A line of about a dozen people waited to buy from him while his assistant, Bradlee Titus, handled sales, trading cash for crab while negotiating the ladder between the boat and the pier. Juanes pulled the 2-pound crabs out with his bare hands and put them in bags for his customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanes says he knew the program was something special on New Year's Eve. That day, social media posts documented long lines snaking out of Pier 47 and around the corner, down Jefferson Street, even putting the nearby, notoriously long In-N-Out line to shame. There were two boats selling that day and they both sold out, selling 1 ton between the two of them. Juanes knew they would have to bring more to satisfy demand. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11820467","label":"The Pier 45 Fire Devastates Local Crabbers "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freshly caught fish, sold straight off the boat — it’s a scene as old as fishing itself. But it’s also a relatively new development in San Francisco. For years, no off-the-boat sales were permitted in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed in 2017 when the port authorized a pilot program allowing off-the-boat sales of fish — no crustaceans allowed. Seeing success last November, the port made that program permanent, and approved the pilot to sell crab off the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwin Gonzalez came from San Mateo to buy. He says buying straight from fishers is about more than just the crab itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm glad we're able to help out locals. That's the other thing. I'm trying to get the economy back up,” said Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selling directly cuts out a lot of overhead for crabbers, so they can keep more of the profits for themselves. Juanes says he can only sell crab to a wholesaler for about $5 a pound, but he can get double that selling to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901233\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS43369_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_SSJeremiahOBrienLibertyShip_05262020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of Warehouse C on Pier 45 in Fisherman’s Wharf on May 26, 2020, after a fire destroyed the building on May 23. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was in favor of the pilot, though. Some traditional fish sellers say the pilot creates an unfair business advantage. Angela Cincotta of the historic Alioto-Lazio Fish Company spoke against it at an October 2020 port commission meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once a boat becomes a direct seller, the boat now becomes a brick-and-mortar business, just like all of ours,” Cincotta said. “The same rules should apply, but will not. For $225 a year from one boat, you will be jeopardizing the thousands of dollars you received monthly from the other brick-and-mortars. The money does not equate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominic Moreno is maritime operations manager at the Port of San Francisco. He says the program is designed to help both the fishers and the local economy.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's an overwhelming success. We didn't think it would be this great.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Matt Juanes, San Francisco crabber","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The program was set up to create a new market and not disrupt what businesses were already there,” Moreno said. “You can still get cooked Dungeness from one of the crab stands, and the wholesalers are still able to purchase their crab from the fishermen. We identified that there was a market for people who wanted to come down and buy live Dungeness crab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's especially important, as it wasn't just the Pier 45 fire that set crabbers back. The waves of bad news kept coming: The pandemic shrank tourism at the wharf, which in turn has made crab sales suffer. \u003ca href=\"https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fsftravel.ent.box.com%2Fs%2Fevn3hsrd6kub3w3sv61fjb5e5pyddtfo\">San Francisco Travel Association reports\u003c/a> total direct visitor spending sank 72% between 2019 and 2020 across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start of crab season also has been delayed in recent years in an effort to protect migrating humpback whales and leatherback turtles from getting entangled in crab fishing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Juanes says what’s good for the fishers is good for the other businesses, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we sold out, there were so many people here. They went to all the local restaurants and bought all their crab and sold them out. So it's a win-win for everyone,\" Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820664\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11820664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman and crabber sits aboard his boat in Fisherman's Wharf, in the aft section, in a navy blue shirt, staring out at the water.\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crabber Nick Krieger sits aboard the Amigo, a fishing boat, in 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for all the fanfare from the public about this pilot, why haven’t fishers been allowed to sell their catch off the boat before? Until now, San Francisco was one of the only ports in California that didn’t allow off-the-boat sales. Fishers like Juanes and Krieger say they’ve seen crab boats leave San Francisco for places like Half Moon Bay where off-the-boat sales were permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many crabbers speculated that pressure from local restaurants and wholesalers, as well as the rise of Fisherman’s Wharf as a tourist attraction, played a role in banning off-the-boat sales previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Barnett, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association, offered another explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really infrastructure. That’s how I would explain it,” Barnett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett said that ports like Half Moon Bay and Fort Bragg are better set up for the public to find easy parking and walk straight down to the dock. Now that Fisherman’s Wharf is primarily built to cater to tourism, it’s been harder to redesign the venue. Namely, parking is now scant and expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to cook crab in a hotel room. As the wharf catered more and more to tourists, the economy shifted away from live crab to cooked crab. With the reintroduction of live Dungeness to the wharf, it brought about the return of another rare species there: locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Allen came to buy some crab after rowing at the nearby Dolphin Club. “I think it’s great for these guys. I'm glad to see they can make maybe a little extra money this way,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking crab can be entertaining, too, he said: “It's easy to cook and it's kind of fun. There's sort of a whole ritual of cracking them and sharing them and all that good stuff. So the whole experience is amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominic Moreno, of The Port of San Francisco, said it also gives the public a taste of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They appreciate the authenticity of the experience. Learning where their food comes from and talking to the people that harvested it is valuable for a lot of people that come down to buy off the boats,\" Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11253568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11253568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of cooked crab sit on a skillet as the chef in an apron watches on.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/CrabCookin-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cook at Nick's Lighthouse in San Francisco prepares Dungeness crab. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fishers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/1781205035414463/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=1792080817660218\">using social media and a mobile app\u003c/a> to let the public know what and when they’re selling. And Juanes is excited to sell more than just crab, perhaps expanding to salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some hiccups in the takeoff of the pilot. The fishers can run out of crab early if there's enough demand, and keeping regular hours can be a challenge, considering they must first fish for the crab, before they can sell it. Barnett also wanted to remind the public that part of the experience of buying directly from a fisher also means you're not buying from an experienced salesperson — sometimes the process can have some kinks to iron out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only five boats are signed up for the pilot currently, fisher Nick Krieger expects that number to double in the coming months. Juanes says he and Titus are committed to being at Pier 47 selling crab every Saturday, at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port Commission will evaluate the pilot and make a decision on whether the program will continue in October of 2022. In the meantime, live Dungeness has given a reason for locals, and not just tourists, to return to the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11901222/new-direct-sales-program-keeps-sf-crab-industry-afloat-after-devastating-fire","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_30489","news_19172","news_743","news_30491","news_30490"],"featImg":"news_11784659","label":"news"},"news_11820656":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11820656","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11820656","score":null,"sort":[1590454507000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"total-loss-pier-45-blaze-devastates-sfs-iconic-crabbing-fishing-industry","title":"'Total loss': Pier 45 Blaze Devastates SF’s Iconic Crabbing, Fishing Industry","publishDate":1590454507,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>From his vantage point high on a hill overlooking San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, Nick Krieger watched through binoculars as flames licked the sky above Pier 45 early Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The towering smoke plumes. The swirling siren lights. The fireboats showering arching waterfalls of bay water onto the burning warehouse. None of it would be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krieger, a longtime crabber and fisherman, watched his dreams burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $100,000 of his equipment — expensive crab pots and fishing gear purchased over the last 12 years — melted in the inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-alarm Pier 45 blaze, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820467/4-alarm-warehouse-blaze-contained-at-pier-45-on-fishermans-wharf\">which began just after 4 a.m. Saturday and was contained by the early afternoon\u003c/a>, is still under investigation by the San Francisco Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its impacts extend beyond Krieger: Roughly 30 crabbers and fishermen on average lost at least $300,000 worth of equipment in Saturday's blaze, according to the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, with an estimated total loss of $9 million. As the wreckage is inspected in the coming days, that number may grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economic hit comes as fishermen are already reeling from plummeting sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we all kind of just felt like it couldn't get worse,” Krieger said. “But it got way worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Port of San Francisco, which owns Pier 45, requires tenants to have insurance, as of Sunday the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association said it was unsure how much of the equipment loss insurance would cover — if any at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers speaking to KQED estimate half of Fisherman’s Wharf fishermen, the workers who give the place its name, saw their equipment go up in flames in the Pier 45 fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The business of crabbing is an inextricable part of what San Francisco is. It’s part of our reputation and our economy,” said San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who represents Fisherman’s Wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin added, “We’ve got a little bit of time between now and November to figure this thing out, but if it’s a philanthropic campaign or assistance, we need to get the crabbers back on their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that effort may yet bear fruit, it’s likely that for the coming crab season, which starts in November, the crustaceans on Bay Area diners’ plates will be ones caught by fishermen from elsewhere in California who sail to San Francisco’s waters every season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscan-caught crab may be off the menu, or at least scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/pier-45-rebuilding-fund\">San Francisco fishermen have started a GoFundMe campaign\u003c/a> with hopes of raising money to replace their lost gear. They’re also waiting to see if San Francisco steps up with economic assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1264183863422537728\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with resources stretched thin during the pandemic, these crabbers and fishermen told KQED some may be forced to retire for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Hit Hard, Again\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fishing isn’t just a calling for Krieger, a Marin resident, it’s how he supports his wife and teenage daughter. He loves setting out to sea aboard his boat, the Take Time — setting his watch to the tides, the winds and the bevy of technological widgets that inform him of their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he admits, money was already hard to come by.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nick Krieger, fisherman\"]\"I think we all kind of just felt like it couldn't get worse. But it got way worse.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One wholesaler Krieger long sold his catches to still owes him $50,000 from January, as they folded amid the pandemic, a familiar refrain among most of the fishermen affected by the fire, he said. Now things have gone from bad to worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Barnett, president of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, mostly agreed with that assessment. He personally lost about $300,000 of equipment in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett said that even if — by some miracle — deep-pocketed donors replaced all of the equipment lost, rigging and restoring it may take so long that the crabbers will almost certainly miss the coming season. That’s a large chunk of their annual income, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters parked outside The Franciscan Crab Restaurant near Pier 45 continued to contain 'smolders' Sunday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that there's a fair amount of fishermen that either won't be able to make it past this, [or] be able to get economically sound again in their own finances,” Barnett said. “I think there's a few fishermen that might just take this as their time to retire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond the crabbers whose equipment is now little more than ash, there’s another concern — the structural integrity of Pier 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 80 years ago, Pier 45 was the last loading dock for World War II vessels bound to fight in the Pacific. Today, it is home to the main hoists of Fisherman’s Wharf responsible for unloading fish-filled nets from hundreds of fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.water2table.com/\">Joe Conte runs Water 2 Table\u003c/a>, which directly sells freshly caught fish. Conte estimates he lost $15,000 in property in the fire. But the pier’s integrity is his main concern. If it’s declared structurally unsound, the hoists may need to be moved, potentially impacting the incomes of hundreds of more fishermen.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Aaron Peskin\"]\"The business of crabbing is an inextricable part of what San Francisco is. It’s part of our reputation and our economy.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That pier is pretty much the heart of the local fishing industry,” Conte said. “If they have this pier taped off for weeks or months, that's devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Uncertain Waters\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of Pier 45’s fate, the Port of San Francisco said it’s just too early to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris from the fire is still too plentiful to actually get boots on the ground to inspect the hoists, said Randy Quezada, a spokesperson for the Port. The same goes for the structural integrity of Pier 45. The Port expects to announce its findings Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820664\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11820664 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crabber Nick Krieger sits aboard the 'Amigo,' a fishing boat, a day after a fire destroyed most of his gear. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That may also prompt the nonprofit that administers the historic World War II-era vessel, the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, to move the ship from Pier 45, its home for roughly 20 years, said Matt Lasher, the group’s executive director. The ship escaped the blaze thanks to the swift action of a fireboat called the St. Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some winds of fortune for the fishermen, the fire was contained to only one warehouse on Pier 45. The other three sheds that process fish straight from the boats remain largely intact, Quezada said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will work with them to find a replacement space,” Port of San Francisco Executive Director Elaine Forbes told KQED at the scene of the fire Saturday as crews were still working to contain it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she added, “It’s probably a total loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Marco Siler-Gonzales contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Roughly 30 crabbers and fishermen on average each lost at least $300,000 worth of equipment in Saturday's blaze, according to the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, with the total loss estimated at close to $9 million.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1590517480,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1231},"headData":{"title":"'Total loss': Pier 45 Blaze Devastates SF’s Iconic Crabbing, Fishing Industry | KQED","description":"Roughly 30 crabbers and fishermen on average each lost at least $300,000 worth of equipment in Saturday's blaze, according to the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, with the total loss estimated at close to $9 million.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11820656 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11820656","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/25/total-loss-pier-45-blaze-devastates-sfs-iconic-crabbing-fishing-industry/","disqusTitle":"'Total loss': Pier 45 Blaze Devastates SF’s Iconic Crabbing, Fishing Industry","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/bb63f56e-1276-4bf0-a94a-abc70126db23/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11820656/total-loss-pier-45-blaze-devastates-sfs-iconic-crabbing-fishing-industry","audioDuration":125000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From his vantage point high on a hill overlooking San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, Nick Krieger watched through binoculars as flames licked the sky above Pier 45 early Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The towering smoke plumes. The swirling siren lights. The fireboats showering arching waterfalls of bay water onto the burning warehouse. None of it would be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krieger, a longtime crabber and fisherman, watched his dreams burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $100,000 of his equipment — expensive crab pots and fishing gear purchased over the last 12 years — melted in the inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-alarm Pier 45 blaze, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820467/4-alarm-warehouse-blaze-contained-at-pier-45-on-fishermans-wharf\">which began just after 4 a.m. Saturday and was contained by the early afternoon\u003c/a>, is still under investigation by the San Francisco Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its impacts extend beyond Krieger: Roughly 30 crabbers and fishermen on average lost at least $300,000 worth of equipment in Saturday's blaze, according to the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, with an estimated total loss of $9 million. As the wreckage is inspected in the coming days, that number may grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economic hit comes as fishermen are already reeling from plummeting sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we all kind of just felt like it couldn't get worse,” Krieger said. “But it got way worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Port of San Francisco, which owns Pier 45, requires tenants to have insurance, as of Sunday the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association said it was unsure how much of the equipment loss insurance would cover — if any at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers speaking to KQED estimate half of Fisherman’s Wharf fishermen, the workers who give the place its name, saw their equipment go up in flames in the Pier 45 fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The business of crabbing is an inextricable part of what San Francisco is. It’s part of our reputation and our economy,” said San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who represents Fisherman’s Wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin added, “We’ve got a little bit of time between now and November to figure this thing out, but if it’s a philanthropic campaign or assistance, we need to get the crabbers back on their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that effort may yet bear fruit, it’s likely that for the coming crab season, which starts in November, the crustaceans on Bay Area diners’ plates will be ones caught by fishermen from elsewhere in California who sail to San Francisco’s waters every season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscan-caught crab may be off the menu, or at least scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/pier-45-rebuilding-fund\">San Francisco fishermen have started a GoFundMe campaign\u003c/a> with hopes of raising money to replace their lost gear. They’re also waiting to see if San Francisco steps up with economic assistance.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1264183863422537728"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>But with resources stretched thin during the pandemic, these crabbers and fishermen told KQED some may be forced to retire for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Hit Hard, Again\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fishing isn’t just a calling for Krieger, a Marin resident, it’s how he supports his wife and teenage daughter. He loves setting out to sea aboard his boat, the Take Time — setting his watch to the tides, the winds and the bevy of technological widgets that inform him of their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he admits, money was already hard to come by.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"I think we all kind of just felt like it couldn't get worse. But it got way worse.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nick Krieger, fisherman","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One wholesaler Krieger long sold his catches to still owes him $50,000 from January, as they folded amid the pandemic, a familiar refrain among most of the fishermen affected by the fire, he said. Now things have gone from bad to worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Barnett, president of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, mostly agreed with that assessment. He personally lost about $300,000 of equipment in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett said that even if — by some miracle — deep-pocketed donors replaced all of the equipment lost, rigging and restoring it may take so long that the crabbers will almost certainly miss the coming season. That’s a large chunk of their annual income, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber3.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters parked outside The Franciscan Crab Restaurant near Pier 45 continued to contain 'smolders' Sunday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that there's a fair amount of fishermen that either won't be able to make it past this, [or] be able to get economically sound again in their own finances,” Barnett said. “I think there's a few fishermen that might just take this as their time to retire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond the crabbers whose equipment is now little more than ash, there’s another concern — the structural integrity of Pier 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 80 years ago, Pier 45 was the last loading dock for World War II vessels bound to fight in the Pacific. Today, it is home to the main hoists of Fisherman’s Wharf responsible for unloading fish-filled nets from hundreds of fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.water2table.com/\">Joe Conte runs Water 2 Table\u003c/a>, which directly sells freshly caught fish. Conte estimates he lost $15,000 in property in the fire. But the pier’s integrity is his main concern. If it’s declared structurally unsound, the hoists may need to be moved, potentially impacting the incomes of hundreds of more fishermen.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"The business of crabbing is an inextricable part of what San Francisco is. It’s part of our reputation and our economy.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Supervisor Aaron Peskin","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That pier is pretty much the heart of the local fishing industry,” Conte said. “If they have this pier taped off for weeks or months, that's devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Uncertain Waters\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of Pier 45’s fate, the Port of San Francisco said it’s just too early to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris from the fire is still too plentiful to actually get boots on the ground to inspect the hoists, said Randy Quezada, a spokesperson for the Port. The same goes for the structural integrity of Pier 45. The Port expects to announce its findings Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820664\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11820664 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/crabber2.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crabber Nick Krieger sits aboard the 'Amigo,' a fishing boat, a day after a fire destroyed most of his gear. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That may also prompt the nonprofit that administers the historic World War II-era vessel, the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, to move the ship from Pier 45, its home for roughly 20 years, said Matt Lasher, the group’s executive director. The ship escaped the blaze thanks to the swift action of a fireboat called the St. Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some winds of fortune for the fishermen, the fire was contained to only one warehouse on Pier 45. The other three sheds that process fish straight from the boats remain largely intact, Quezada said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will work with them to find a replacement space,” Port of San Francisco Executive Director Elaine Forbes told KQED at the scene of the fire Saturday as crews were still working to contain it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she added, “It’s probably a total loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Marco Siler-Gonzales contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11820656/total-loss-pier-45-blaze-devastates-sfs-iconic-crabbing-fishing-industry","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_24114","news_8"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_19172","news_27626","news_787","news_743","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11820658","label":"news"},"news_11792314":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11792314","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11792314","score":null,"sort":[1576802869000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"happy-dungeness-crab-season","title":"Happy Dungeness Crab Season","publishDate":1576802869,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After a delay, commercial \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fioredungeness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dungeness crab season is now open\u003c/a>, so get your pots ready!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials delayed the season to minimize the chances migrating whales would get entangled in crabbing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the whales have largely moved on, crabs are left to fend for themselves and resist the overpowering urge to walk into that scary-looking trap for a free meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a delay, commercial Dungeness crab season is now open, so get your pots ready!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1576806180,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":65},"headData":{"title":"Happy Dungeness Crab Season | KQED","description":"After a delay, commercial Dungeness crab season is now open, so get your pots ready!","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11792314 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11792314","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/19/happy-dungeness-crab-season/","disqusTitle":"Happy Dungeness Crab Season","path":"/news/11792314/happy-dungeness-crab-season","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a delay, commercial \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fioredungeness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dungeness crab season is now open\u003c/a>, so get your pots ready!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials delayed the season to minimize the chances migrating whales would get entangled in crabbing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the whales have largely moved on, crabs are left to fend for themselves and resist the overpowering urge to walk into that scary-looking trap for a free meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11792314/happy-dungeness-crab-season","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_19172","news_18008","news_20949","news_22531","news_841"],"featImg":"news_11792334","label":"news_18515"},"news_11784637":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11784637","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11784637","score":null,"sort":[1572736515000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"commercial-crab-fishing-season-tentatively-delayed-recreational-warning-issued","title":"Commercial Crab Fishing Season Tentatively Delayed, Recreational Warning Issued","publishDate":1572736515,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The start of the commercial \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildlife.ca.gov/crab.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dungeness crab\u003c/a> season will likely be delayed this year in California. Meanwhile, the recreational season starts Saturday — but not without a warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recreational Season\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health advises people catching crab recreationally not to consume the internal organs or guts of crab caught in two coastal areas due to the presence of domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The areas covered by the advisory are Point Reyes in Marin County to Pillar Point in San Mateo County, and Shelter Cove in Humboldt County to Point Arena in Mendocino County.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11759053\" label=\"\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low levels of domoic acid can cause nausea, diarrhea and dizziness. Higher levels can cause short-term memory loss, seizures and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please remember to eviscerate any crab caught in these regions prior to cooking\" to lower the risk of poisoning, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Commercial Season\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has tentatively pushed back the start of commercial Dungeness crab season to Nov. 23, originally scheduled for Nov. 15, due to concerns over the presence of whales, which have been increasingly getting entangled in lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784660\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11784660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Public Health advises people catching crab recreationally not to consume the internal organs or guts in two coastal areas. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency made the preliminary decision after consulting stakeholders, including \"fishing, environmental and management agencies,\" according to CDFW Director Charlton Bonham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Center for Biological Diversity Oceans Program Litigation Director Kristen Monsell said CDFW's decision is the result of the first scheduled assessment since a settlement was reached in March with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group sued the state after 71 whales were caught in fishing lines in 2017 — the highest number since National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Fisheries started keeping records in 1982. The ensuing deal requires the state to periodically assess the risk of entanglement in commercial Dungeness crab gear to whales and sea turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will give them extra time to migrate to their breeding grounds before thousands upon thousands of lines are dropped into their habitat.\" said Monsell, who hopes the agency will do another assessment before officially allowing crab fishermen to set their lines. But a second assessment is not legally required until Dec. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"dungeness-crab\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Oppenheim of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations said while Thanksgiving crab is still on the menu, the delay will cost its members millions in losses. He says whether the approach will even curb entanglements is a grand \"experiment\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crab fishermen will certainly take this one on the chin, it's been a tough year, it's been a tough half decade for the commercial dungeness crab fishery in California ... without question, the management institutions that we've designed have simply not caught up with the changes we see in the ocean, and the changes we need to implement to make sure that we have a viable fishery here,\" said Oppenheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people of California are certainly going to be able to get their Thanksgiving crab this year, and that's critically important, so is being protective of marine life, we're committed to both,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDFW said it will enforce the delay unless its swayed by new information on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season will likely be delayed this year in California. Meanwhile, the recreational season starts Saturday — but not without a warning.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1572990355,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":565},"headData":{"title":"Commercial Crab Fishing Season Tentatively Delayed, Recreational Warning Issued | KQED","description":"The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season will likely be delayed this year in California. Meanwhile, the recreational season starts Saturday — but not without a warning.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11784637 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11784637","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/02/commercial-crab-fishing-season-tentatively-delayed-recreational-warning-issued/","disqusTitle":"Commercial Crab Fishing Season Tentatively Delayed, Recreational Warning Issued","path":"/news/11784637/commercial-crab-fishing-season-tentatively-delayed-recreational-warning-issued","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The start of the commercial \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildlife.ca.gov/crab.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dungeness crab\u003c/a> season will likely be delayed this year in California. Meanwhile, the recreational season starts Saturday — but not without a warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recreational Season\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health advises people catching crab recreationally not to consume the internal organs or guts of crab caught in two coastal areas due to the presence of domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The areas covered by the advisory are Point Reyes in Marin County to Pillar Point in San Mateo County, and Shelter Cove in Humboldt County to Point Arena in Mendocino County.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11759053","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low levels of domoic acid can cause nausea, diarrhea and dizziness. Higher levels can cause short-term memory loss, seizures and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please remember to eviscerate any crab caught in these regions prior to cooking\" to lower the risk of poisoning, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Commercial Season\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has tentatively pushed back the start of commercial Dungeness crab season to Nov. 23, originally scheduled for Nov. 15, due to concerns over the presence of whales, which have been increasingly getting entangled in lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11784660\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11784660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS19486_IMG_5192-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Public Health advises people catching crab recreationally not to consume the internal organs or guts in two coastal areas. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency made the preliminary decision after consulting stakeholders, including \"fishing, environmental and management agencies,\" according to CDFW Director Charlton Bonham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Center for Biological Diversity Oceans Program Litigation Director Kristen Monsell said CDFW's decision is the result of the first scheduled assessment since a settlement was reached in March with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group sued the state after 71 whales were caught in fishing lines in 2017 — the highest number since National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Fisheries started keeping records in 1982. The ensuing deal requires the state to periodically assess the risk of entanglement in commercial Dungeness crab gear to whales and sea turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will give them extra time to migrate to their breeding grounds before thousands upon thousands of lines are dropped into their habitat.\" said Monsell, who hopes the agency will do another assessment before officially allowing crab fishermen to set their lines. But a second assessment is not legally required until Dec. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"dungeness-crab","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Oppenheim of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations said while Thanksgiving crab is still on the menu, the delay will cost its members millions in losses. He says whether the approach will even curb entanglements is a grand \"experiment\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crab fishermen will certainly take this one on the chin, it's been a tough year, it's been a tough half decade for the commercial dungeness crab fishery in California ... without question, the management institutions that we've designed have simply not caught up with the changes we see in the ocean, and the changes we need to implement to make sure that we have a viable fishery here,\" said Oppenheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people of California are certainly going to be able to get their Thanksgiving crab this year, and that's critically important, so is being protective of marine life, we're committed to both,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDFW said it will enforce the delay unless its swayed by new information on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11784637/commercial-crab-fishing-season-tentatively-delayed-recreational-warning-issued","authors":["3214"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_24114","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_1153","news_19190","news_19172"],"featImg":"news_11784659","label":"news_72"},"news_11761013":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11761013","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11761013","score":null,"sort":[1563534044000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-isnt-local-seafood-a-bigger-deal-in-the-bay-area","title":"Why Isn't Local Seafood a Bigger Deal in the Bay Area?","publishDate":1563534044,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why Isn’t Local Seafood a Bigger Deal in the Bay Area? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Rayan Rafay was prepared to be blown away by Bay Area seafood when he moved here in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After growing up on the East Coast, he had been amazed by the seafood he encountered when he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just this like magical wonderland of seafood,” he said. “Chefs just did things with seafood on the West Coast that I’d never even imagined in my lemon butter world of fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafay said he saw this in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, and he assumed he would find the same thing when he moved to the Bay Area. After all, it’s a place with a long tradition of fishing and home to many immigrant groups — Chinese, Japanese, Italians and others — for whom fish play a big part in culture and diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafay even went out on local waters with a commercial fisherman and caught his own rock cod and halibut. But back on land, he wasn’t seeing those local catches showing up on many local menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t find any of the fish that I’m pretty sure are right outside in the ocean,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>: With the Pacific Ocean right there, \u003cstrong>why isn’t local seafood a bigger deal in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Show Me the Money\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like many things in the Bay Area, the seeming dearth of a robust local seafood scene can be traced in part to the cost of doing business — and that, in turn, can be traced to the region’s high real estate costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How expensive it is to stay in business in the Bay Area means that all of us who are in business are trying to find ways to cut costs, and we are cutting costs in the ingredients that we are using,” said Kenny Belov, who runs Fish restaurant in Sausalito and TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11762128 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lourdes Mendoza guts rockfish at TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco on May 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area restaurants have to deal with high rents and high salaries among other costs, and adding in the volatility and uncertainty that comes with buying local, wild-caught seafood can make things even tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s much easier and more economical, according to Belov, for restaurants to serve Atlantic salmon raised in fish farms. These fish provide a consistent supply at a consistent price all year long, but some see farmed salmon as an inferior product and potentially harmful to the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Local Seafood Resources\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The latest data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=159550&inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 100 species\u003c/a> of seafood that are caught in the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rates seafood\u003c/a> based on its sustainability. It also offers a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/our-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile app\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/guides/mba-seafoodwatch-west-coast-guide.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printable consumer guides\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco has a list of \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/eat-seasonally/charts/seafood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 local seafood options\u003c/a> sold seasonally at its market.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/99587/bay-area-bites-guide-to-8-places-to-buy-fresh-fish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Bites Guide to 8 Great Places to Buy Fresh Fish\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/recipes/article/The-seafood-calendar-What-s-in-season-locally-6403686.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The seafood calendar: What’s in season locally\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wholesale farmed salmon sells for around $8 per pound year-round, while wild-caught salmon is going for closer to $20 per pound this year, and isn’t guaranteed to be available every day even in season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belov doesn’t offer farmed salmon at Fish restaurant or TwoXSea, instead choosing to only buy and serve seafood that can be traced all the way back to the boat it was caught on and the person who reeled it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me that’s what makes food taste better. It’s not just food on a plate. It’s the story of the men and women who work so hard to get those ingredients,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows doing that raises his costs, and he says part of the reason more restaurants aren’t willing to take on those extra costs is because there’s not enough demand from consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to seafood we just don’t want to pay a lot for it,” Belov said of Bay Area diners. “We’re still kind of in that fish-stick mentality of it’s cheap, it’s protein and it’s abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, consumers in places like China and Japan are more than willing to pay top dollar for many of the region’s top catches, including crab, spiny lobster and black cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon for sale at Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locally caught chinook salmon for sale at the Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Where Are the Fish?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about the demand; the supply of wild-caught Bay Area seafood has been in flux in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several California fisheries, including chinook salmon, Dungeness crab and rockfish, have been curtailed or temporarily shut down in recent years due to population declines traced to overfishing, water diversions, habitat destruction and drought, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of fish that we can actually catch has gone way down,” said Mike Hudson, who has worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bay Area for decades, catching mostly salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson remembers years when the region’s chinook salmon season netted more than a million fish in just a few months. But the salmon fishery was completely shut down in 2008 and 2009, and it has been carefully managed ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial fisherman Mike Hudson off-loads a boat full of chinook salmon at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commercial fisherman Mike Hudson offloads a boat full of chinook salmon at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/California-salmon-season-nears-with-hopes-of-a-13772919.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant restrictions\u003c/a> placed on salmon season the past three years, resulting in fewer fish and prices jumping to around $30 to $35 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People used to come to our farmers markets and buy 2 pounds of salmon or 4 pounds of salmon for their family for the entire week,” Hudson said. “Now the same people come and they buy half a pound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to restore habitat, improve salmon hatchery practices and recent wet winters have fishermen like Hudson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/California-fishermen-report-the-biggest-salmon-14028875.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feeling optimistic\u003c/a> about the upcoming and future salmon seasons, but the salmon population is still far from the million-fish seasons of Hudson’s early days, and a fillet still costs around $20 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Knowledge Is Power\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But it’s not all about how much local, wild-caught seafood costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also just a lack of awareness,” said Jana Hennig, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.positivelygroundfish.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positively Groundfish\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that promotes groundfish caught on the West Coast. “Most people just don’t know what is even a local species here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 90 or so species of groundfish that Hennig works with — which include Pacific cod, rockfish and sole — aren’t as expensive as better-known Dungeness crab or chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because many consumers aren’t as aware of the breadth of local options, Hennig said many Bay Area chefs are hesitant to feature them on their menu, even with the low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If more people actually went to restaurants and said, ‘Hey, do you have any local seafood? And do you ever serve rockfish?’ They’d be far more inclined to actually put it on the menu,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With the Pacific Ocean right in our backyard, why isn't it easier to find local, wild-caught seafood in the Bay Area?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700591205,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1282},"headData":{"title":"Why Isn't Local Seafood a Bigger Deal in the Bay Area? | KQED","description":"With the Pacific Ocean right in our backyard, why isn't it easier to find local, wild-caught seafood in the Bay Area?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2019/07/BaySeafood.mp3","path":"/news/11761013/why-isnt-local-seafood-a-bigger-deal-in-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rayan Rafay was prepared to be blown away by Bay Area seafood when he moved here in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After growing up on the East Coast, he had been amazed by the seafood he encountered when he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just this like magical wonderland of seafood,” he said. “Chefs just did things with seafood on the West Coast that I’d never even imagined in my lemon butter world of fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafay said he saw this in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, and he assumed he would find the same thing when he moved to the Bay Area. After all, it’s a place with a long tradition of fishing and home to many immigrant groups — Chinese, Japanese, Italians and others — for whom fish play a big part in culture and diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafay even went out on local waters with a commercial fisherman and caught his own rock cod and halibut. But back on land, he wasn’t seeing those local catches showing up on many local menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t find any of the fish that I’m pretty sure are right outside in the ocean,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>: With the Pacific Ocean right there, \u003cstrong>why isn’t local seafood a bigger deal in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Show Me the Money\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like many things in the Bay Area, the seeming dearth of a robust local seafood scene can be traced in part to the cost of doing business — and that, in turn, can be traced to the region’s high real estate costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How expensive it is to stay in business in the Bay Area means that all of us who are in business are trying to find ways to cut costs, and we are cutting costs in the ingredients that we are using,” said Kenny Belov, who runs Fish restaurant in Sausalito and TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11762128 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lourdes Mendoza guts rockfish at TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco on May 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area restaurants have to deal with high rents and high salaries among other costs, and adding in the volatility and uncertainty that comes with buying local, wild-caught seafood can make things even tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s much easier and more economical, according to Belov, for restaurants to serve Atlantic salmon raised in fish farms. These fish provide a consistent supply at a consistent price all year long, but some see farmed salmon as an inferior product and potentially harmful to the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Local Seafood Resources\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The latest data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=159550&inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 100 species\u003c/a> of seafood that are caught in the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rates seafood\u003c/a> based on its sustainability. It also offers a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/our-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile app\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/guides/mba-seafoodwatch-west-coast-guide.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printable consumer guides\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco has a list of \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/eat-seasonally/charts/seafood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 local seafood options\u003c/a> sold seasonally at its market.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/99587/bay-area-bites-guide-to-8-places-to-buy-fresh-fish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Bites Guide to 8 Great Places to Buy Fresh Fish\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/recipes/article/The-seafood-calendar-What-s-in-season-locally-6403686.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The seafood calendar: What’s in season locally\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wholesale farmed salmon sells for around $8 per pound year-round, while wild-caught salmon is going for closer to $20 per pound this year, and isn’t guaranteed to be available every day even in season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belov doesn’t offer farmed salmon at Fish restaurant or TwoXSea, instead choosing to only buy and serve seafood that can be traced all the way back to the boat it was caught on and the person who reeled it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me that’s what makes food taste better. It’s not just food on a plate. It’s the story of the men and women who work so hard to get those ingredients,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows doing that raises his costs, and he says part of the reason more restaurants aren’t willing to take on those extra costs is because there’s not enough demand from consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to seafood we just don’t want to pay a lot for it,” Belov said of Bay Area diners. “We’re still kind of in that fish-stick mentality of it’s cheap, it’s protein and it’s abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, consumers in places like China and Japan are more than willing to pay top dollar for many of the region’s top catches, including crab, spiny lobster and black cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon for sale at Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locally caught chinook salmon for sale at the Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Where Are the Fish?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about the demand; the supply of wild-caught Bay Area seafood has been in flux in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several California fisheries, including chinook salmon, Dungeness crab and rockfish, have been curtailed or temporarily shut down in recent years due to population declines traced to overfishing, water diversions, habitat destruction and drought, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of fish that we can actually catch has gone way down,” said Mike Hudson, who has worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bay Area for decades, catching mostly salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson remembers years when the region’s chinook salmon season netted more than a million fish in just a few months. But the salmon fishery was completely shut down in 2008 and 2009, and it has been carefully managed ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial fisherman Mike Hudson off-loads a boat full of chinook salmon at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commercial fisherman Mike Hudson offloads a boat full of chinook salmon at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/California-salmon-season-nears-with-hopes-of-a-13772919.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant restrictions\u003c/a> placed on salmon season the past three years, resulting in fewer fish and prices jumping to around $30 to $35 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People used to come to our farmers markets and buy 2 pounds of salmon or 4 pounds of salmon for their family for the entire week,” Hudson said. “Now the same people come and they buy half a pound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to restore habitat, improve salmon hatchery practices and recent wet winters have fishermen like Hudson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/California-fishermen-report-the-biggest-salmon-14028875.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feeling optimistic\u003c/a> about the upcoming and future salmon seasons, but the salmon population is still far from the million-fish seasons of Hudson’s early days, and a fillet still costs around $20 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Knowledge Is Power\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But it’s not all about how much local, wild-caught seafood costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also just a lack of awareness,” said Jana Hennig, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.positivelygroundfish.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positively Groundfish\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that promotes groundfish caught on the West Coast. “Most people just don’t know what is even a local species here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 90 or so species of groundfish that Hennig works with — which include Pacific cod, rockfish and sole — aren’t as expensive as better-known Dungeness crab or chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because many consumers aren’t as aware of the breadth of local options, Hennig said many Bay Area chefs are hesitant to feature them on their menu, even with the low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If more people actually went to restaurants and said, ‘Hey, do you have any local seafood? And do you ever serve rockfish?’ They’d be far more inclined to actually put it on the menu,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11761013/why-isnt-local-seafood-a-bigger-deal-in-the-bay-area","authors":["11260"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_223","news_19906","news_24114","news_8","news_33520","news_356"],"tags":["news_24374","news_19172","news_22714","news_3531"],"featImg":"news_11762122","label":"source_news_11761013"},"news_11741898":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11741898","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11741898","score":null,"sort":[1555980471000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"west-coast-crabbers-grapple-with-climate-change","title":"West Coast Crabbers Grapple With Climate Change","publishDate":1555980471,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Climate scientists \u003ca href=\"https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-ocean-heat-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate\u003c/a> that the oceans have absorbed some 90 percent of the Earth's warming in recent decades, which is why we're seeing signs of climate change there first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11735659' label='More Coverage From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that warming is impacting the livelihoods of California crabbers squeezed at both ends of the annual season by delays. A dangerous neurotoxin called domoic acid, emitted by algae blooms in warming waters, has been showing up in large concentrations in crabs and shellfish, and has caused delays in three of the last four crabbing seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ocean conditions also led to a spike in whale entanglements, resulting in a legal settlement that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735659/california-dungeness-crab-fishery-to-close-three-months-early-to-protect-whales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed the season early this year\u003c/a> and will see it shut four months early in coming years as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortened seasons have made it hard for crabbers to hold on to crews, which are essential to a thriving fishery. Boats often sit idle for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Happening Off the Pacific Coast?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2013, a large pool of warm water \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/space-map-pacific-blob/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared\u003c/a> off the Pacific Coast, which scientists took to calling \"the blob.\" Warm currents are normal in the region, but this was a large and spreading mass of water that measured up to 7 degrees warmer than average ocean temperatures at different points. By early 2015 it had spread from Alaska to Mexico. Scientists were perplexed, but eventually figured out what was going on ... sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a combination of factors: warming oceans, melting sea ice and a lack of wind, caused by what they called a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2016/04/01/pr-drought-patterns-change-040116/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"ridiculously resilient [atmospheric] ridge.\"\u003c/a> This is where it gets \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/theblob.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even more complicated\u003c/a>: Scientists are still unsure whether the ridge caused the blob or vice versa, or whether they were just two anomalies occurring at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11741928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sea lions crowd the docks at Crescent City. Warming waters have also impacted them, reducing their food source and exposing them to dangerous levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea lions crowd the docks at Crescent City. Warming waters have also impacted them, reducing their food source and exposing them to dangerous levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The net result was the same: The blob kept spreading, and the ocean's upwelling — a process that churns up cold water and nutrients from the depths to the surface — had been interrupted. Without upwelling there wasn't much phytoplankton, and without phytoplankton there was less krill than usual. And less of several other small fish, too. That meant marine mammals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/hypothesis-confirmed-sea-lion-mass-deaths-caused-malnutrition/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going hungry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the blob sparked an enormous bloom of a particular type of algae that emits a potent neurotoxin, domoic acid. Crabs and various other shellfish are tested for their domoic acid content before the start of each fishing season, and if they test above 30 parts per million, the opening is delayed. That's precisely what happened in 2015. The Nov. 15 opener came and went, then December, January and February, and finally the crab season opened March 26, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fishing Season Delays Hit Crabbers Especially Hard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had just bought our first house, so taken on the biggest debt of our lives, and then the domoic acid shutdown happened,\" says Ben Platt, who lives in the Sonoma County town of Windsor but fishes out of Crescent City, up by the California-Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt grew up fishing with his dad at Point Arena in Mendocino County. \"My brother and I started fishing in the summers, salmon trolling with our dad, when we were about 9 years old,\" he says. \"They used to let you get out of school early to fish. My brother started getting out a month early to work on boats when he was around 12.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt preferred school. He went off to college, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, but life brought him back to boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got into drinking and then I went from drinking to drugging and that became a big problem for me,\" Platt says. \"When I hit bottom I was homeless in Los Angeles. I lived on the streets of L.A. I was in and out of jail and in a lot of trouble. And in my last day there I almost died. I got in a fight and got stabbed and I almost bled out. So that was my wake-up call. I ended up following my dad's suggestion and went back with him to Fort Bragg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11741902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-800x927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"927\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-800x927.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-160x185.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-1020x1182.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-1036x1200.jpg 1036w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-1920x2225.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920.jpg 1767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Platt lives in the Sonoma County town of Windsor but fishes out of Crescent City near the California-Oregon border. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started fishing with his dad again on day passes from rehab, and then after about a year his dad died suddenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I moved into town at that point with a year clean and sober to help my stepmom out,\" Platt says. \"And so I was like, well, there's this leaky old skiff with an outboard motor that doesn't run very well, and a trailer and a little pickup truck. And so I tried it and did well, and then I actually sank that first boat and was fishing out of a kayak for a while with a friend of mine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt says it was like sport fishing, but he was making money out of it. He eventually bought a Boston Whaler with a bigger engine and rented a little alley house in Fort Bragg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's happening lately, three out of the last four years, with our crews is we're asking these guys to sit around and either make no money or very little money doing part-time jobs, but they have to be on call for when the season does start,\" Platt says. \"So it's really hard for them to work, and our boats are sitting idle for three, four, five months at a time now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most crabbers have permits for at least one other fishery, usually two or three, and Platt's no different. But he says the delayed crab seasons are impacting other seasons, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We crabbed that [2014-2015] year until the very end of the season, which in District 10 is June 30. And then it takes a couple of weeks to get your gear. We had to check our gear back home, break it all down, stack it,\" Platt says. \"So by the time we got salmon trolling it was already middle of August, so essentially salmon season was just about over by the time we started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt says most crabbers want to be wrapping up their seasons by late March at the latest, but that's been tough in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to be done with your crab season before we even started on these domoic acid years,\" he says. \"So last year we didn't start until Feb. 7, or something like that. This year we started Jan. 22 up here. You can't get a full crab season and a full salmon season, or if you're a shrimper, you can't get a full crab season and a full shrimp season. And so, yeah, the domoic acid thing, it throws everything off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt says the downtime has been hard on his crew, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know we can't keep good crews, which are essential to doing well with these fisheries, if we can't keep them employed essentially year-round,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The domoic acid closures prompted the crabbers' trade association — the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) — to file a suit last year against the world's largest oil companies. Crabbers allege that oil companies knew their product contributed to climate change, yet failed to adequately warn the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Chevron spokesman Sean Comey wrote, “It’s always regrettable to be in a legal dispute with a customer, especially considering how much diesel the fishing fleets purchase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11741926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"On his new, larger boat crabber Ben Platt will fish for albacore in addition to crab.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his new larger boat, crabber Ben Platt will fish for albacore in addition to crab. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the same issue many crabbers, including Platt, had with the case when they first heard about it. \"You know, my initial reaction was just like a lot of other fishermen. It's like, well I have a diesel engine in my boat. So why would I want to sue a fossil fuel company?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after digging into the history of oil industry-funded strategies around climate change, Platt changed his mind, along with many of his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I think what it boils down to for me is that I've done everything I could do as a fossil fuel-burning boat operator commercial fisherman to minimize my carbon footprint,\" Platt says. \"We're doing whatever we can, but there's only so much that we can do. We're not the fossil fuel companies, we're not the big energy companies. We're not scientists. We can't figure out how to make a hydrogen cell or something that'll power our boats. You know, we're just using what's available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all the turmoil, Platt isn't giving up on the ocean anytime soon. He's in the midst of building a bigger boat, and this summer he'll head up to Oregon, Washington and Canada, where warmer waters are making for great tuna fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can hear more of this story in \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-soon-hot-water-a-new-drilled-series/id1439735906?i=1000434030888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Season 2\u003c/a> of the podcast Drilled, which launched on April 22, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Warmer water off the Pacific Coast has led to algae blooms that produce large concentrations of domoic acid, a dangerous neurotoxin, in crabs and shellfish, resulting in delayed crab seasons.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1555980471,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1562},"headData":{"title":"West Coast Crabbers Grapple With Climate Change | KQED","description":"Warmer water off the Pacific Coast has led to algae blooms that produce large concentrations of domoic acid, a dangerous neurotoxin, in crabs and shellfish, resulting in delayed crab seasons.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11741898 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11741898","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/22/west-coast-crabbers-grapple-with-climate-change/","disqusTitle":"West Coast Crabbers Grapple With Climate Change","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/04/WesterveltCrabbing.mp3","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amywestervelt.com/\">Amy Westervelt\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","audioTrackLength":165,"path":"/news/11741898/west-coast-crabbers-grapple-with-climate-change","audioDuration":165000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Climate scientists \u003ca href=\"https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-ocean-heat-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate\u003c/a> that the oceans have absorbed some 90 percent of the Earth's warming in recent decades, which is why we're seeing signs of climate change there first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11735659","label":"More Coverage From KQED "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that warming is impacting the livelihoods of California crabbers squeezed at both ends of the annual season by delays. A dangerous neurotoxin called domoic acid, emitted by algae blooms in warming waters, has been showing up in large concentrations in crabs and shellfish, and has caused delays in three of the last four crabbing seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ocean conditions also led to a spike in whale entanglements, resulting in a legal settlement that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735659/california-dungeness-crab-fishery-to-close-three-months-early-to-protect-whales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed the season early this year\u003c/a> and will see it shut four months early in coming years as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortened seasons have made it hard for crabbers to hold on to crews, which are essential to a thriving fishery. Boats often sit idle for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Happening Off the Pacific Coast?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2013, a large pool of warm water \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/space-map-pacific-blob/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared\u003c/a> off the Pacific Coast, which scientists took to calling \"the blob.\" Warm currents are normal in the region, but this was a large and spreading mass of water that measured up to 7 degrees warmer than average ocean temperatures at different points. By early 2015 it had spread from Alaska to Mexico. Scientists were perplexed, but eventually figured out what was going on ... sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a combination of factors: warming oceans, melting sea ice and a lack of wind, caused by what they called a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2016/04/01/pr-drought-patterns-change-040116/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"ridiculously resilient [atmospheric] ridge.\"\u003c/a> This is where it gets \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/theblob.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even more complicated\u003c/a>: Scientists are still unsure whether the ridge caused the blob or vice versa, or whether they were just two anomalies occurring at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11741928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sea lions crowd the docks at Crescent City. Warming waters have also impacted them, reducing their food source and exposing them to dangerous levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Crescent-City-Harbor-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea lions crowd the docks at Crescent City. Warming waters have also impacted them, reducing their food source and exposing them to dangerous levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The net result was the same: The blob kept spreading, and the ocean's upwelling — a process that churns up cold water and nutrients from the depths to the surface — had been interrupted. Without upwelling there wasn't much phytoplankton, and without phytoplankton there was less krill than usual. And less of several other small fish, too. That meant marine mammals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/hypothesis-confirmed-sea-lion-mass-deaths-caused-malnutrition/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going hungry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the blob sparked an enormous bloom of a particular type of algae that emits a potent neurotoxin, domoic acid. Crabs and various other shellfish are tested for their domoic acid content before the start of each fishing season, and if they test above 30 parts per million, the opening is delayed. That's precisely what happened in 2015. The Nov. 15 opener came and went, then December, January and February, and finally the crab season opened March 26, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fishing Season Delays Hit Crabbers Especially Hard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had just bought our first house, so taken on the biggest debt of our lives, and then the domoic acid shutdown happened,\" says Ben Platt, who lives in the Sonoma County town of Windsor but fishes out of Crescent City, up by the California-Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt grew up fishing with his dad at Point Arena in Mendocino County. \"My brother and I started fishing in the summers, salmon trolling with our dad, when we were about 9 years old,\" he says. \"They used to let you get out of school early to fish. My brother started getting out a month early to work on boats when he was around 12.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt preferred school. He went off to college, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, but life brought him back to boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got into drinking and then I went from drinking to drugging and that became a big problem for me,\" Platt says. \"When I hit bottom I was homeless in Los Angeles. I lived on the streets of L.A. I was in and out of jail and in a lot of trouble. And in my last day there I almost died. I got in a fight and got stabbed and I almost bled out. So that was my wake-up call. I ended up following my dad's suggestion and went back with him to Fort Bragg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11741902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-800x927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"927\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-800x927.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-160x185.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-1020x1182.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-1036x1200.jpg 1036w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920-1920x2225.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/BenPlatt-1920.jpg 1767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Platt lives in the Sonoma County town of Windsor but fishes out of Crescent City near the California-Oregon border. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started fishing with his dad again on day passes from rehab, and then after about a year his dad died suddenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I moved into town at that point with a year clean and sober to help my stepmom out,\" Platt says. \"And so I was like, well, there's this leaky old skiff with an outboard motor that doesn't run very well, and a trailer and a little pickup truck. And so I tried it and did well, and then I actually sank that first boat and was fishing out of a kayak for a while with a friend of mine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt says it was like sport fishing, but he was making money out of it. He eventually bought a Boston Whaler with a bigger engine and rented a little alley house in Fort Bragg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's happening lately, three out of the last four years, with our crews is we're asking these guys to sit around and either make no money or very little money doing part-time jobs, but they have to be on call for when the season does start,\" Platt says. \"So it's really hard for them to work, and our boats are sitting idle for three, four, five months at a time now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most crabbers have permits for at least one other fishery, usually two or three, and Platt's no different. But he says the delayed crab seasons are impacting other seasons, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We crabbed that [2014-2015] year until the very end of the season, which in District 10 is June 30. And then it takes a couple of weeks to get your gear. We had to check our gear back home, break it all down, stack it,\" Platt says. \"So by the time we got salmon trolling it was already middle of August, so essentially salmon season was just about over by the time we started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt says most crabbers want to be wrapping up their seasons by late March at the latest, but that's been tough in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to be done with your crab season before we even started on these domoic acid years,\" he says. \"So last year we didn't start until Feb. 7, or something like that. This year we started Jan. 22 up here. You can't get a full crab season and a full salmon season, or if you're a shrimper, you can't get a full crab season and a full shrimp season. And so, yeah, the domoic acid thing, it throws everything off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Platt says the downtime has been hard on his crew, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know we can't keep good crews, which are essential to doing well with these fisheries, if we can't keep them employed essentially year-round,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The domoic acid closures prompted the crabbers' trade association — the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) — to file a suit last year against the world's largest oil companies. Crabbers allege that oil companies knew their product contributed to climate change, yet failed to adequately warn the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Chevron spokesman Sean Comey wrote, “It’s always regrettable to be in a legal dispute with a customer, especially considering how much diesel the fishing fleets purchase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11741926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"On his new, larger boat crabber Ben Platt will fish for albacore in addition to crab.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Ben-Platt-New-Boat-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his new larger boat, crabber Ben Platt will fish for albacore in addition to crab. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the same issue many crabbers, including Platt, had with the case when they first heard about it. \"You know, my initial reaction was just like a lot of other fishermen. It's like, well I have a diesel engine in my boat. So why would I want to sue a fossil fuel company?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after digging into the history of oil industry-funded strategies around climate change, Platt changed his mind, along with many of his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I think what it boils down to for me is that I've done everything I could do as a fossil fuel-burning boat operator commercial fisherman to minimize my carbon footprint,\" Platt says. \"We're doing whatever we can, but there's only so much that we can do. We're not the fossil fuel companies, we're not the big energy companies. We're not scientists. We can't figure out how to make a hydrogen cell or something that'll power our boats. You know, we're just using what's available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all the turmoil, Platt isn't giving up on the ocean anytime soon. He's in the midst of building a bigger boat, and this summer he'll head up to Oregon, Washington and Canada, where warmer waters are making for great tuna fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can hear more of this story in \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-soon-hot-water-a-new-drilled-series/id1439735906?i=1000434030888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Season 2\u003c/a> of the podcast Drilled, which launched on April 22, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11741898/west-coast-crabbers-grapple-with-climate-change","authors":["byline_news_11741898"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_255","news_19172","news_22588"],"featImg":"news_11741998","label":"news_72"},"news_11735659":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11735659","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11735659","score":null,"sort":[1553725849000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-dungeness-crab-fishery-to-close-three-months-early-to-protect-whales","title":"California Dungeness Crab Fishery to Close 3 Months Early to Protect Whales","publishDate":1553725849,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A settlement announced Tuesday between fishers, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity will bring an April 15 close to the Dungeness crab season statewide, three months earlier than it usually ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit centered around the entanglement of whales and leatherback sea turtles in crab-fishing gear, which spiked in 2015 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fishers and the CDFW pointed to the 2015-2016 crab season as an anomaly triggered by an unusually warm blob of water off the California coast, CBD attorney Kristen Monsell said the group wasn't seeing enough action from the California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group, which formed to tackle whale entanglements following that season. She said many of the conditions present that year have persisted: The crab fishery has had a delayed start three out of the last four years due to high domoic acid levels driven by warming waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary count for 2018 showed 45 whale entanglements on the West Coast, compared with 31 confirmed entanglements in 2017. Between 2000 and 2014, the West Coast saw an average of 10 entanglements per year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"Dick Ogg, crab boat captain\"]'With warm water, no krill, high concentrations of crab gear, it was the perfect storm.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What no one disagrees on is that climate change has altered ocean conditions in ways that are harmful to both whales and the livelihoods of fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are several reasons why people think we're seeing a big spike in entanglements. One is climate change,\" Monsell said. \"The whales are going into and staying in different waters at different times of the year than they have in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift began in 2015, when a large warm-water blob appeared off the coast of California. Warm-water currents are normal, but this was a large blob of water that was approximately 7 degrees higher than normal warm currents. That caused a spike in large algae blooms and shifted the marine food web. The algae contributed to a buildup in crab of domoic acid, a harmful neurotoxin, delaying the opening of the Dungeness crab fishing season from November 2015 to late March 2016. The warm water caused krill, the whales' preferred food, to move closer to shore, while also driving a concentration of crab in Morro and Monterey bays, spots that tend to be less popular for crabbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With warm water, no krill, high concentrations of crab gear, it was the perfect storm, a situation that was going to potentially cause problems,\" said Dick Ogg, a crab boat captain in Bodega Bay, who has been heavily involved in the crab gear working group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11735068]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they didn't see enough action to prevent future entanglements in 2016, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the state fish and wildlife agency in 2017, charging that the state needed to have a federal incidental take permit — governing the conservation of endangered species, like the leatherback sea turtles and particular types of humpback whales that were getting entangled in the fishery's gear — to allow the crab fishery to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was delayed initially, but earlier this year a federal judge said it would go forward, prompting CBD, DFW and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) to negotiate a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fishery is closing April 15 this year, it will close for districts south of Mendocino on April 1 beginning in 2020, unless auditors determine there is low risk of entanglements, which will be monitored every two weeks after April 1. These restrictions will be in place until the federal permit is attained, to avoid having crab gear and migrating whales in the water at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers using ropeless gear will be able to continue fishing past the spring closure, which both DFW and CBD hope will spur adoption of new \"smart\" crab pots that use sensor-equipped buoys and pots, and GPS, instead of rope. The ropeless gear is fairly new and expensive — around $15,000 compared to a $200 traditional crab pot. But if enough crabbers are incentivized to make the investment to extend their seasons, the hope is that the technology will scale, bringing prices down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crab fishery has opened late three out of the last four years due to persistent domoic acid issues triggered by climate change. Spring closures could further shrink the season for fishers, potentially costing the nearly $70 million industry millions of dollars in lost revenue annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDFW Director Chuck Bonham has reached out to federal representatives in an attempt to secure a disaster payment owed to fishers since the 2015 closures, and said the state needs to start thinking through how it will help rural coastal communities adapt to climate change and how it will support fisheries, including incentivizing ropeless gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What does it look like to have the right wharfs and infrastructure for chillers and boats, and what does it look like to prepare them for the future?\" Bonham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast Dungeness crab fishery is one of the most sustainable in the country, as it's self-replenishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The paradoxical nature of this is really challenging to accept,\" PCFFA Executive Director Noah Oppenheim said. \"That we would be looking at closures in an otherwise healthy fishery — whether it's driven by domoic acid or other factors — to close a fishery that's doing well is something new in American fisheries management, and we need to treat it differently from the kinds of closures that we've had to institute when climate forces or overfishing have resulted in stock depletion. It's a new phenomenon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=bayareabites_127300]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PCFFA has recently taken matters into its own hands and filed suit against the country's largest oil producers for their role in both contributing to climate change and working to cover up its imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going to be looking at domoic acid impacts driven by climate change every single season in perpetuity, and it's disruptive, it's damaging, it destroys communities. And we do not have appropriate mechanisms to support fishermen when these events occur. We have to do something, and that something to date has been closing and waiting multiple years for federal disaster assistance that may not ever be delivered,\" Oppenheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's crystal-clear that prevailing ocean conditions in 2015 and 2016 and since have been driven by destabilizing atmospheric forces, and ocean circulation dynamics have been changing because of climate change,\" he said. \"It's indisputable, and the fossil fuel industry doesn't dispute the science. What they dispute is whether they're culpable. But they are liable and we're holding them to account. We're gonna make them pay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"April 15 closure is tied to settlement of lawsuit centered around the entanglement of whales and leatherback sea turtles in crab-fishing gear. 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She said many of the conditions present that year have persisted: The crab fishery has had a delayed start three out of the last four years due to high domoic acid levels driven by warming waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary count for 2018 showed 45 whale entanglements on the West Coast, compared with 31 confirmed entanglements in 2017. 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One is climate change,\" Monsell said. \"The whales are going into and staying in different waters at different times of the year than they have in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift began in 2015, when a large warm-water blob appeared off the coast of California. Warm-water currents are normal, but this was a large blob of water that was approximately 7 degrees higher than normal warm currents. That caused a spike in large algae blooms and shifted the marine food web. The algae contributed to a buildup in crab of domoic acid, a harmful neurotoxin, delaying the opening of the Dungeness crab fishing season from November 2015 to late March 2016. 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These restrictions will be in place until the federal permit is attained, to avoid having crab gear and migrating whales in the water at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers using ropeless gear will be able to continue fishing past the spring closure, which both DFW and CBD hope will spur adoption of new \"smart\" crab pots that use sensor-equipped buoys and pots, and GPS, instead of rope. The ropeless gear is fairly new and expensive — around $15,000 compared to a $200 traditional crab pot. But if enough crabbers are incentivized to make the investment to extend their seasons, the hope is that the technology will scale, bringing prices down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crab fishery has opened late three out of the last four years due to persistent domoic acid issues triggered by climate change. Spring closures could further shrink the season for fishers, potentially costing the nearly $70 million industry millions of dollars in lost revenue annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDFW Director Chuck Bonham has reached out to federal representatives in an attempt to secure a disaster payment owed to fishers since the 2015 closures, and said the state needs to start thinking through how it will help rural coastal communities adapt to climate change and how it will support fisheries, including incentivizing ropeless gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What does it look like to have the right wharfs and infrastructure for chillers and boats, and what does it look like to prepare them for the future?\" Bonham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast Dungeness crab fishery is one of the most sustainable in the country, as it's self-replenishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The paradoxical nature of this is really challenging to accept,\" PCFFA Executive Director Noah Oppenheim said. \"That we would be looking at closures in an otherwise healthy fishery — whether it's driven by domoic acid or other factors — to close a fishery that's doing well is something new in American fisheries management, and we need to treat it differently from the kinds of closures that we've had to institute when climate forces or overfishing have resulted in stock depletion. It's a new phenomenon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"bayareabites_127300","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PCFFA has recently taken matters into its own hands and filed suit against the country's largest oil producers for their role in both contributing to climate change and working to cover up its imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going to be looking at domoic acid impacts driven by climate change every single season in perpetuity, and it's disruptive, it's damaging, it destroys communities. And we do not have appropriate mechanisms to support fishermen when these events occur. We have to do something, and that something to date has been closing and waiting multiple years for federal disaster assistance that may not ever be delivered,\" Oppenheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's crystal-clear that prevailing ocean conditions in 2015 and 2016 and since have been driven by destabilizing atmospheric forces, and ocean circulation dynamics have been changing because of climate change,\" he said. \"It's indisputable, and the fossil fuel industry doesn't dispute the science. What they dispute is whether they're culpable. But they are liable and we're holding them to account. 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