Dungeness
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Splurge for the Alaskan Red or Golden King crab legs, or choose a more budget-friendly and still local Dungeness or snow crab.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025
The anemic hauls so early in the season mark the latest setback for California’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery, a roughly $45-million-a-year industry that delivers one of the state’s most iconic culinary delights.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025
From 2014 to 2016, a Pacific Ocean heat wave forced anchovies and other humpback prey closer to shore and into the path of Dungeness crab fishing equipment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
About half the waterways where it spawned — spanning the Skokomish River on the canal to the Dungeness River near Sequim — lost their entire runs, according to the University of Washington’s Puget Sound Institute.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024
Soon salmon and steelhead and trout from the Dungeness made their way up the irrigation ditch and gathered in schools in the pond.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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