In 2025, the last full year of PacFIN data, West Coast commercial fishermen landed 1.3 million pounds of rock crab worth $3 million, averaging $2.25 per pound. Ex-vessel value rose 22% from 2024, while average price per pound fell 2%. Ranked by total catch value, rock crab is 17th among the 263 species and species groups reported to PacFIN and tracked by Cormorant.
Oregon and Washington landings of rock crab total less than 1% of ex-vessel value (or are confidential) and are not charted.
All reported 2025 ex-vessel value for rock crab came from California, though landings also occurred in Oregon and Washington in small or confidential amounts. It was landed in 8 of the 19 PacFIN port areas, from San Francisco south to San Diego, with confidential landings as far north as Newport, Oregon. Santa Barbara led all port areas with 69% of value.
Port areas ranked by ex-vessel value with landed weight and price per pound.
3 port areas have confidential rock crab data and are excluded from these rankings.
Rock crab is landed year-round; even the busiest month, May, accounted for just 10% of 2025 landed pounds.
Rock crab is landed almost entirely with traps (99% of its 2025 West Coast ex-vessel value, based on PacFIN gear-group landings).
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Data sourced from PacFIN (Pacific Fisheries Information Network) and carries the limitations of that source, including reporting lags and confidentiality thresholds for landings with fewer than 3 vessels. Cormorant does not guarantee accuracy and is not a substitute for official fisheries reporting.