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Despite raising wages and expanding overtime, owners of seafood business on the Eastern Shore say they cannot find locals to replace seasonal Mexican workers. 
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The shellfish should arrive in restaurants as early as Wednesday and in fish markets later this week, meaning Bay Area families can return to the tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with platters of freshly steamed and cracked Dungeness crab. The best retail prices are expected to be $5.99 to $6.99 per pound, according to Mike Lucas, president of North Coast Fisheries, a shellfish processor and distributor in Santa Rosa. On Wednesday, the two Woodhouse locations will return to offering their “Dungeness Madness” special: a whole steamed crab with potatoes, greens and garlic bread for $20 (the price will likely rise over the weekend). After last year’s season was delayed by months because of a toxic algal bloom, the start of this year’s brought a sense of relief to those in the fishing industry. Crab boats began dropping their pots in the ocean Monday and were allowed to start pulling them up at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. At Sun Fat Seafood, a market in the Mission District, employee Hoa Kuu said he expects to have local crab in the store this weekend. There is one limit on the fishery, though, as a 60-mile stretch of the coast between Point Reyes and the Mendocino-Sonoma county line is not yet open because of sporadic domoic acid showing up in tests conducted by the California Department of Public Health.
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Minh Tran, who has a record of infractions and misdemeanor convictions for state Fish and Game Code violations, was sentenced to 10 days in jail, three years of probation and a $20,580 fine. A state Fish and Wildlife warden spotted the couple Feb. 14 as they arrived at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in their 18-foot Boston Whaler powerboat. The warden saw 20 crabs in an open ice chest but found 16 more in a canvas bag in the boat's anchor compartment, authorities said.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Secret compartments, eh?
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The California season is on and, unlike last year, the catch is plump and plentiful.
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The animal rights group PETA put up a billboard urging Baltimore to stop eating meat, crab specifically.
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A health advisory on the Dungeness and rock crab has been lifted along parts of the California coast in time for the new year, allowing some residents to feast on the crustaceans without fear of poisoning, state Public Health Department officials said Thursday. California Department of Public Health officials continued to monitor crabs along those waters. Crabs south of the specified latitude are safe, but officials warned people to avoid eating the internal organs and not to use cooking water for preparing other dishes. Poisoning symptoms can arrive anywhere from 30 minutes to one day after eating the crabs, and include vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headache and dizziness in mild cases. Officials said the most severe cases can result in trouble breathing, confusion, disorientation, cardiovascular instability, seizures, excessive bronchial secretions, permanent loss of short-term memory, coma or death.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Dungeness crabs from San Luis Obispo south are now deemed safe to eat and so our section of the state has resumed crabbing for the first time this season.
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The coconut crab is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. Feeding its incredible growth is no small task, so this nine-pound hermit crab eats anything it can get its claws on. It has been observed hunting other crabs, young ...
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You put the lime in the coconut...
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