The commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in the San Francisco region will be delayed to protect whales from getting tangled in trap gear, state regulators said.

The use of traps was scheduled to open Nov. 15 between the Sonoma/Mendocino county line and Lopez Point in Monterey County.

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