Instead of ‘closing the season’ for 7 years in a row to accommodate the whales, why not just MOVE the season to accommodate the whales?
Or are the crabs gone by then? Are they leaving the area on the backs of whales? ;)
It doesn’t look like they’re canceling, just delaying the opening.
I don’t know much about the crabs, but I’d think that they aren’t fished during molting times (?)