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Why Did Puget Sound Crabs Shed Their Shells Early?

Dungeness crab being unloaded at the Quinault Indian Nation docks in Westport, Washington.
KUOW Photo/Ashley Ahearn
Dungeness crab being unloaded at the Quinault Indian Nation docks in Westport, Washington.

David Hyde asks Rich Childers, Puget Sound shellfish manager for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, why the recreational Dungeness crab season opens two weeks earlier than expected this year in Hood Canal.

Year started with KUOW: 2004