Oregon Ocean Commercial Dungeness Crab Permit Holders and Interested Persons, based on domoic acid results and consultations with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, Tri-State managers, and the Oregon commercial crab industry, are opening the ocean commercial Dungeness crab season from Cape Arago to the Oregon/California border.
Commercial crabbers will be able to set gear starting January 29th 8:00 am after the 73-hour mandatory soaking period, crabbers will the be able to start pulling gear and delivering crab at 9:00 am February 1.
The southern portion of this area from Cape Blanco to the Oregon/California border will open as a designated Biotoxin Management Zone with a mandatory evisceration order for all crab harvested from the zone.
Testing for domoic acid in Oregon will continue approximately weekly, to determine if and when the evisceration order can be lifted in the Biotoxin Management Zone.
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