Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season opens Jan. 15 for much of the coast after a weekslong delay. Oregon Fish and Wildlife initially had a targeted opening date of Dec. 1, but that was delayed ...

NEWPORT Ore. (KPTV) - The commercial Dungeness crab season will open from Cape Falcon to the California border on Dec. 16, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) announced Friday.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season is delayed after pre-season testing found crabs are too low in meat yield, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced.

The Oregon commercial fishing industry’s economic impacts were an all-time high in Year 2025, according to a Corvallis-based economic research group, though tough times often are never far away.