it is with a heavy heart that i report that this crab season — which launched last week — has been off to a very slow, grim start.

as soon as i knew of the season officially opening, i did research on actually learning how to crab — something i’ve wanted to do for years now. not offshore or anything, but on a pier, tossing some crab pots into the water. i think the park conservancy offers lessons too.

so i spoke with a colleague here in the know — he’s a skipper on a sportfishing boat — and he told me it’s pretty bad. no one’s been able to get any crustacean action. we then commiserated together about our disappointment of not being able to enjoy fresh crab anytime soon.

even if i can’t crab this year, i still want to do one of my favorite things — go to half moon bay’s pillar point pier and buy FRESH live crab right off the boats. take them home and create my own little crab feed. but that’s if the season even picks up.

without a robust harvest, how will we even have good community fundraiser crab feeds?!

last year one organization even resorted to switching to prawns since they didn’t have enough crab. and that is certainly not the same thing.

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