By Zoe Hunt Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY, California (KSBW) — Dungeness crab season has been delayed for the seventh year in a row. The season was supposed to start Nov. 15, but due to a high number of humpback whales in the Monterey Bay it has been postponed. The delay is to protect endangered humpback whales from getting dangerously entangled in crab fishing ropes, which can be deadly. “It’s like a ball and chain that just keeps digging and digging into their fins,” said Oceana senior scientist Geoff Shester. “It can get entangled in their mouth, their pectoral fins.” A lot of humpback whales have been seen off the Central Coast waters, some even in activ
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