A proposal to keep diamondback terrapins from drowning when trapped in Chesapeake Bay crab pots is sparking angry objections from watermen.

Authorities threw the crab pots back into the water, hoping the owner would turn up to claim them — but they were taken in the middle of the night, Martin said, meaning the owner remains a mystery.

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

The Town of Chesapeake City is looking for crab pot donations to keep their staple crab pot Christmas Tree display up to par ...

In total, he has set out 250 crab traps. Every buoy is attached to a thin rope that stretches 200 feet down to a cylindrical, metal-and-wire pot on the ocean floor. Day spent the previous month ...