Crab Season 2024 California Schedule. After weeks of delays, the 2024 bay area commercial dungeness crab season will begin thursday, january 18 — there’s just one caveat. Find crab feeds and cioppino feasts taking place in 2024 throughout san francisco bay area communities.

For more updates and details on. Continue the delay of the season opener of the commercial dungeness crab fishery in fishing zones 3, 4, 5 and 6 until the next risk assessment on or before january 11,.