{"id":6262,"date":"2020-10-29T18:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:17:07","slug":"california-new-dungeness-crab-regulations-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/29\/california-new-dungeness-crab-regulations-in-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"California: New Dungeness Crab Regulations in Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Seafood-News-1b-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Seafood-News-1b-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Seafood-News-1b.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>On October 26, California officials announced new Dungeness crab fishing regulations. The changes look to reduce encounters with various endangered species.<\/p>\r\n<p>The new regulations go into effect at the start of November. Crab fishermen will need to reduce the number of traps in areas where high concentrations of sea turtles and whales are present. In the event of an entanglement, the state also has the right to close the area.<\/p>\r\n<p>Fishermen are also no allowed to use\u00a0 alternative gear in waters closed to conventional traps.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafoodsource.com\/news\/environment-sustainability\/california-rolls-out-new-dungeness-crab-regulations-to-reduce-entanglements\">Read the full story at SeafoodSource.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@bedis-elacheche-310026\">Photo Credit: Bedis ElAcheche via Pexels.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26, California officials announced new Dungeness crab fishing regulations. The changes look to reduce encounters with various endangered species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[159,160],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}