California Dungeness Crab Season 2024 Schedule. After weeks of delays, the 2024 bay area commercial dungeness crab season will begin thursday, january 18 — there’s just one caveat. Ports of landing from crescent city to.

Crab traps may be restricted by ramp zone due to elevated marine life entanglement risk by cdfw, see faqs. 5 in the state’s northernmost counties of mendocino, humboldt and del norte, state.