Bay Area seafood lovers hoping to serve fresh Dungeness crab for Thanksgiving or Christmas are out of luck again this year. California officials have postponed the commercial crabbing season once more because of the ongoing risk of whale entanglements off the Northern California coast.

At the docks near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, crab pots are sitting idle.

The delay doesn't come as a surprise, as the season has been pushed back four or five years in a row, but commercial fishermen said that doesn't soften the economic blow.

San Francisco fisherman David Kemp pointed to his worn work clothes as a sign of how tough things have gotten.

"Look at me, I've got holes in my shirt. We're barely holding onto our businesses," he said.

It's been a particularly rough year for Bay Area fis

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