The Dungeness Crab season has been delayed twice this year.  But the crabbers will hit the water at a minute after midnight Monday morning.

"Well it's great news that it's getting started because there are a lot of people across the state, around the country and around the world who just love Dungeness Crab."

Gary Roth with the Oregon Department of Agriculture says they had to wait while the crabs fattened up.  "This weight is going to give us really good quality."

Last season the price for crabs was 2-dollars-95-cents a pound.  This year "the starting price for this season, paid at the dock, by the processors to the fishermen is two dollars and 30 cents a pound.  I don't have any information on what the retail price will be."

The 14-million pounds of crabs caught last season was the third lowest catch in 8 years.

 Source: Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission

2011-12: 14.2 million pounds harvested at an average price of $2.95 per lb.

2010-11: 21.3 million pounds harvested at an average price of $2.30 per lb.

2009-10: 23.2 million pounds harvested at an average price of $1.93 per lb.

2008-09: 12.9 million pounds harvested at an average price of $2 per lb.

2007-08: 12.3 million pounds harvested at an average price of $2.39 per lb.

2006-07: 15.1 million pounds harvested at an average price of $2.18 per lb.