For the sixth consecutive year, California officials are delaying the Bay Area's commercial Dungeness crab season because of the "high abundance" of migrating humpback whales already getting ensnared by old crab-pot fishing lines and other gear—while conservation groups are again expressing frustration with what they say is a too-slow transition to safer fishing methods.

The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh straight year to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines.

The start of the commercial crab season was postponed Friday, marking the seventh consecutive year of delays to protect endangered marine life and sidelining crabbers from Sonoma County and down the California Coast.

Dungeness crab from the California coast won't be on the menu for yet another Thanksgiving, after California wildlife officials announced a delay to the commercial crab fishing season.

Andrea Nakano reports on fishermen who catch dungeness crab as part of their livelihood. Website: YouTube: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter:

The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines.