Bay Area commercial Dungeness crab season starts Sunday after delays [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The Dungeness crab season in the Bay Area is back. It’s getting off to a late start this year.

The opening is scheduled for Sunday, January 5. Crab season usually opens in mid-November.

Usually, the season opens in the middle of November but it was delayed by migrating whales.

Crab fisherman Mike Harvie is happy to be back at work.

“I’m excited to get going finally,” said Harvie. “I’ve been crabbing for 15 years.”

Harvie is busy putting some of his crab pots away.

“We are allowed to use half our pots. These are the extras. I’m putting them away in the shed,” said Harvie.

On Thursday, he and his crew loaded up his 58-foot boat — Vaya Con Dios — and headed out. They dropped 250 pots down on the ocean floor. …