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Even as many fishing boats have sat idle in the harbor lately, Jue and a group of other fishermen have been busy hauling in traps filled with crabs.

The adults chill and maybe have a High Noon and some chips while the kids play and look for sand crabs and boogie board and climb the rocks.

Some gulls are coming to live closer to people, adding human leftovers to their natural menu of fish, crabs, starfish and earthworms.

The morning after Ogg’s long day of pulling pots, he takes the Karen Jeanne to the Tides Wharf, a seafood wholesaler in Bodega Bay, to offload his crabs.

People fish, collect honey, and gather crabs under the constant threat of tigers and venomous snakes.