{"id":23318,"date":"2025-09-26T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23318"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:51:39","slug":"phenomenally-lucrative-washington-dungeness-crab-season-signing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/26\/phenomenally-lucrative-washington-dungeness-crab-season-signing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenomenally lucrative Washington Dungeness crab season signing off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not easily beatable, the ending 2024-25 Pacific Northwest commercial Dungeness crab season has brought Washington state some $88 million in ex-vessel value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By September 21, 2025, commercial landings had amounted to 12.1 million pounds, alongside over 4 million pounds from tribal fisheries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lowest catch volume since 2021 nevertheless brought the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyworld.com\/news\/commercial-crabbers-cap-exceptional-2025-season\/\"><u>penultimate highest landing value&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>ever after 2021-2022\u2019s $88 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the 2024 run had higher hauls at 17 million pounds, its catch value at $66 million was comparably lower than 2025\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 cherished high unit values, beginning with the season\u2019s opener of $5.75 a pound, &nbsp;helping reap impressive turnover from low volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2024\/12\/12\/the-dungeness-crab-season-knocks-in-oregon-skips-California-Washington\"><u>late seasonal beginning<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in mid-January 2025 due to whale entanglement rules initially dragged catch rates until a month on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, commercial fishers hauled 5 million pounds in February alone, the highest for the season so far.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>54% of the landings were concentrated in just Catch Area 60A-2 that stretches from Columbia River through Westport.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even though by September monthly landings had plummeted to 9,000 pounds, they were still lucrative due to elevating crabmeat prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crabmeat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/united-states-of-america\/crabs\/\"><u>wholesale rates<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. were up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.undercurrentnews.com\/2025\/09\/24\/week-39-us-wholesale-prices-market-fears-crabmeat-scarcity-chinese-holiday-boosts-lobster-demand\/\"><u>week 39<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from concerns of a looming ban for imported swimming crab.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Washington commercial Dungeness crab season runs till September after which follows the October 1-December 31 winter crabbing. As the following statistics indicate, both seasons help elevate landings and earnings for the Northwest state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-washington-dungeness-crab-season-statistics\"><strong>Washington Dungeness Crab\u00a0<strong>Season\u00a0<\/strong>Statistics\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington is one of the tri-state capitals of Dungeness crabs in continental United States, the others being California and Oregon. Together with Alaska, the tri-states land\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradexfoods.com\/3mmi\/2025\/01-06-dungeness-crab-update-official-season-openings-lower-tri-state-landings-projected-2025-supply-outlook-pricing\"><u>108 million pounds<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of the species each year, per Tradex Foods. The Washington government has been tracking landings data since 1950. And according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (<a href=\"https:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-01\/newsletter-dungeness-crab-fishery-2024-5.pdf\"><u>WDFW<\/u><\/a>), landings increased steadily from the 1990s through the early 2020s. Its data shows that the catches peaked historically in the 2022-23 season at 28.7 million pounds. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which are the most financially successful Dungeness seasons in Washington?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021-22 season had a landing value of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-01\/newsletter-dungeness-crab-fishery-2024-5.pdf\"><u>$88.2 million<\/u><\/a>, the best ever up to 2025. Runner-up seasons include 2023-24 with $66.8 million and 2024-25 with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyworld.com\/news\/commercial-crabbers-cap-exceptional-2025-season\/\"><u>$83.1 million<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How much is the crab ex-vessel unit value in Washington<\/strong>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crab landing prices from crabbers to processors or wholesalers in Washington average between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-01\/newsletter-dungeness-crab-fishery-2024-5.pdf\"><u>$3.04 and 5.70<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;a pound (2023-24). Comparably, the opening rate in the 2024-25 season was at $5.75\/pound, a little higher than the above range.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which fishery in WA lands most Dungeness crabs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on WDFW\u2019s data for the 2023-24 season, areas 60A-2 and 60A-1 near Columbia River lead statewide landings. Area 60A-2 hauled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-01\/newsletter-dungeness-crab-fishery-2024-5.pdf\"><u>10,466,305 pounds<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of crabs or over 50% of the statewide total, while 60A-1 managed 2,147,061 pounds. The other five areas, namely 59A-1, 59A-2, 60B, 60C and 61 all averaged hundreds of thousands of pounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not easily beatable, the ending 2024-25 Pacific Northwest commercial Dungeness crab season has brought Washington state some $88 million in ex-vessel value. By September 21, 2025, commercial landings had amounted to 12.1 million pounds, alongside over 4 million pounds from tribal fisheries.\u00a0 This lowest catch volume since 2021 nevertheless brought the&nbsp;penultimate highest landing value&nbsp;ever after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.3 (Yoast SEO v20.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Phenomenally lucrative Washington Dungeness crab season signing off - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; Agriculture News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/26\/phenomenally-lucrative-washington-dungeness-crab-season-signing-off\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phenomenally lucrative Washington Dungeness crab season signing off - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; Agriculture News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not easily beatable, the ending 2024-25 Pacific Northwest commercial Dungeness crab season has brought Washington state some $88 million in ex-vessel value. 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