A new crab trap regulation will take effect next Thursday to protect whales off the coast of Northern California.

James Sanders loads crab traps onto the boat Pale Horse at Pier 45 in San Francisco, Thursday, April 10, 2025. The boat's ...

A Humpback whale swims off the coast of San Diego, California, in 2022, entangled with the lines of two commercial Dungeness crab traps. The line is deeply embedded in the flesh of the whale. (Photo ...

(KRON) — A humpback whale that was first observed half a year ago off the Monterey coast to be entangled in lines from a Dungeness crab trap was freed by a team of experts earlier this month ...

Those restrictions will forbid sport fishermen from using crab traps; going forward they will still be allowed to use hoop nets and crab snares through the close of the season, generally in late ...

Unlike the floating vertical trap lines that can sometimes entangle migrating whales, the pop-up buoys sit on the ocean floor with the crab traps. When they're ready, fishermen release the buoys ...

Crab fishing this year began in early January, earlier than 2024’s January 18 start. Even then, there were 50 percent fewer traps deployed to attempt to protect whales in the area. To that end ...

sits on Pier 45 as James Sanders loads crab traps onto the boat Pale Horse in San Francisco, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Emily Steinberger) Pop-up gear, meant to prevent whale ...

This week Capt. Jeff included some non-fishing news, regarding his crab traps. “I currently have 13 traps between Port Orange and New Smyrna Beach,” he says, and this week they finally started ...

Second, people that use crab pots or crab traps will be required to have escape rings so that undersized crabs can escape, which Brunson says has been a requirement for commercial crabbers for a ...

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