Crab update...

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/fdbFrSSda08.pdf

It's getting better but we aren't quite there yet up here. HMB and Monterey look good. Brookings and Coos Bay tested below threshold on Monday and another clean test means Orgon opens as early as next week.

thanks Crash..

I guess I wont count on it for xmas.

I am hoping for the weekend of 1/30

I am hoping for the weekend of 1/30

I'm fairly optimistic at this point that the numbers will be in line well before then.  I'm a bit concerned about how the political process will play out since that is never a guarantee when it comes to crab.

Thanks for the info Crash

I like crab

So get this-

Oregon had two tests below the 30ppm threshold, which was supposed to open the fishery. But, since the 2nd good test showed higher levels than the first good test, they balked on reopening.

I fear this is going to be politiked for no good reason all up and down the coast.

I am itching to get some crab also but if I am going to poop myself or get sick then waiting a little longer should not be to much of a problem.  Now if the water was calm I may feel different. 

Need crab by Jan 1st for our annual cioppino  feast.  I have fish, scallops, clams and octopus already.  I usually just grab the crabs and mussels last min so they are fresh.  Would suck if I had to buy imported crab. 

From a WA DFW email today.

Commercial crabbing in Willapa Bay remains closed. Shellfish managers from Washington, Oregon and California will meet next week to determine when to open commercial Dungeness crab fisheries, including those on Washington’s southern coast.

-Allen

Southern Oregon reopened for recreational crab this morning.
http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/programs/FoodSafety/Shellfish/Pages/ShellfishClosures.aspx

Southern Oregon reopened for recreational crab this morning.
http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/programs/FoodSafety/Shellfish/Pages/ShellfishClosures.aspx

That is good news!  Thanks for the update crash.

More good news from Oregon.

Razor clamming has reopened north of Tillamook Head (Clatsop beaches, northern Oregon).

Mussels have reopened on the entire coast.

Razor clams hold domoic acid the longest, and are the only thing left closed in parts of Oregon.  Hopefully we see major improvement in California soon.  CDPH is lagging on publishing test results, we don't have results for the last 5 weeks (!) out of Humboldt County.

crash, the only ones brave enough to get across the Humboldt Bay bar are the surfers?

Ask and ye shall receive.

Seek and ye shall find.


http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/fdbFrSSda18.pdf

Still slightly elevated in Eureka and Bodega Bay but still dropping overall and most numbers are good. Still, we wait.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Seek and ye shall find.


http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/fdbFrSSda18.pdf

Still slightly elevated in Eureka and Bodega Bay but still dropping overall and most numbers are good. Still, we wait.

HMB is still high too.