One by one, the big boats came in — the New Rayann, the Linda Noelle, Blind Faith. They circled past a breakwater and made their way to Pier 45.
With a well-practiced choreography of hoists and chains, bins and forklifts, each vessel quickly deposited thousands of pounds of flailing Dungeness crabs. The next morning, they would head back out for more.
This was on Thursday afternoon, a breezy, cloudless spring day in San Francisco. Two days earlier, after a delay of more than four months, the crabs offshore had been determined by state officials to be free of a toxic acid that had raised food safety concerns.
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