USCG focuses on crab fishing safety

Every year Coast Guard members conduct free, dock-side inspections of crab vessels before the opening of crab season as part of Operation Safe Crab. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Pamela J. Boehland

As Dungeness crab fishing is the most deadly of all West Coast commercial fisheries, U.S. Coast Guard fishing vessel safety experts will be visiting Northern California fishing ports in early November ahead of the fishing season, to help reduce the number of deaths, injuries and accidents.

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