San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared a local state of emergency to help secure funding for cleanup of last week’s oil spill.

The declaration makes the city eligble for state and local assistance related to the container ship accident that dumped 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay.

City officials also have agreed to secure $250,000 to pay local crab fishermen to help scoop up oil still floating inside and outside the Golden Gate.

The commercial Dungeness crab season was supposed to start Thursday, but it was temporarily suspended to concerns about seafood contamination.