Officer McOmber responded to Westport and located an offload from the suspect vessel, and an initial inspection quickly confirmed the vessel had delivered undersized crab. The vessel’s 3,900 ...

WESTPORT — Authorities say a human skull found in a crab pot off the Washington coast belongs to a female, but it doesn’t match anyone in a national DNA database.

The state’s coastal commercial Dungeness crab season is underway, following months of test fishing and data gathering by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).