Dungeness crab warning

Bruce_Leiser_owitz · November 4, 2015, 1:08pm

This sucks:

Bruce

Jim_Sawitzke · November 4, 2015, 3:53pm

Wow. That’s disappointing.

Brian_Tuite · November 4, 2015, 3:59pm

It’s happened before. It will happen again. It would be a disappointment if we didn’t have crab for Christmas Cioppino though.

P_Willenberg · November 4, 2015, 4:34pm

We had this late last season in Oregon, as well as the more mild “don’t eat the tomalley.” It shortened razor clam season too, boo.

Glenn_L_e_v_i_n_e · November 4, 2015, 4:47pm

No word down here yet but I will inquire. Usually our opening is ~ Dec 1.

Craig_G · November 4, 2015, 5:32pm

Don’t worry. Cioppino is red anyway. You won’t notice it.

CFu · November 4, 2015, 5:59pm

love me some Dungeness crab. Does this apply to all crab along the coast? I see Rock crab on the list

Brent_C_l_a_y_t_o_n · November 4, 2015, 6:10pm

Is this because of The Blob?

Brian_Tuite · November 4, 2015, 6:40pm

You’ve never had my Cioppino.

johngonzales · November 4, 2015, 7:59pm

Brian, User a deeper vessel and you won’t spill all the broth on the floor next time.

I went out for sushi Sunday night. Felt like crap Monday all day. My wife commented that we shared everything and maybe it was the high octane Aubert and Brewer-Clifton talking But then, when we read the story this morning, we remembered that I bogarted the Dungeness item. Hmmmmm??

Craig_G · November 4, 2015, 8:08pm

Can we issue a statewide warning for Brian’s Cioppino?

Kenny_H · November 4, 2015, 8:19pm

David_K_o_l_i_n · November 4, 2015, 8:23pm

Sounds like it’s time for you Left Coasters to learn the joy of the superior blue crab. Or, I hear that you can get fresh King Crab out there

Brian_Tuite · November 4, 2015, 8:26pm

John, we eat Cioppino with our hands. The broth is merely medium to cook the fish in.

Glenn_L_e_v_i_n_e · November 5, 2015, 3:57pm

We are waiting on local tests being done over the next 2 weeks. Initially testing was equivocal and certain crab beds will definitely be closed this winter. Closures may be somewhat checkerboard from Santa Barbara to WA St.

Rick_Smith · November 5, 2015, 4:31pm

Ftw

Brian_Tuite · November 5, 2015, 4:40pm

Dungeness Season hasn’t opened yet, even for sport fisherman. Yours was either last year frozen or poached.

Kenny_H · November 5, 2015, 5:13pm

After having fresh blue crab I am ruined on dungeness forever.

johngonzales · November 5, 2015, 5:30pm

Wait, you mid-westerners get blue crab from Lake Superior?
I actually VERY slightly prefer the texture of blue crab. But, flavor-wise, fresh of each makes for a pretty close battle, and Dungeness are easier to eat/pick.

David_K_o_l_i_n · November 5, 2015, 5:41pm

Certainly easier to pick, but I like long crab sessions. Usually my family leaves half way through, but then I’m left to my crabs in solace. There is something meditative about attacking a pile of blues in silence