Robin Abcarian: A California dilemma: Save the whales or eat the crabs?
SAN FRANCISCO - In the early morning chill on Pier 45, Larry Collins and I sat in a cluttered wood-paneled trailer inside his cavernous fish receiving station. Outside, the fog was lifting over the Golden Gate Bridge to the west, and the sun was already shining on Alcatraz Island to the east.
Inside, a small TV was tuned to a news station; the talk was all about impeachment.
But Collins and I were talking about the only thing that mattered here right now, Dungeness crab.
"Two nights ago, I unloaded 45,000 pounds of crab from 14 vessels," said Collins, 62,
