Crew members Bradlee Titus, left, and Axel Bjorklund throw out line while setting crab pots off the Sonoma County coast. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) It was a calm January morning, the ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on ...

Commercial crabbing season in California opened this past weekend after a couple months delay. Diehard crab connoisseurs got ...

Discover the California seafood restaurant locals love for its perfectly seasoned, golden crab cakes that stand out from ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The crab season has officially opened in California but it does come with some restrictions. It's been lifted in some parts of the state to our south, but there's no such luck ...

A humpback whale dives into the water off the coast of Monterey, California. (Shayan Sanyal, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr) MONTEREY, Calif. (CN) — Commercial crabbing along half of the California coast will ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...