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

Unlike the floating vertical trap lines that can sometimes entangle migrating whales, the pop-up buoys sit on the ocean floor ...

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

A humpback whale that was first observed half a year ago off the Monterey coast to be entangled in lines from a Dungeness ...

Alaskan authorities found the remains of two missing French bulldogs in a pair of crab pots while conducting a routine inspection near Thorne Bay Harbor on March 14. Alaska State Troopers told PEOPLE ...

Regulators are recommending more seasonal closures and harvest limits to help efforts to rebuild the fishery. Crabbers say show us the data.

Two French bulldogs who were missing for more than a month in Alaska have been found dead inside a pair of crab pots — with their owners believing they were abducted and killed in a sick ...

The gear lets fishermen use a remote-operated, acoustic release device to pop-up a crab pot from the ocean floor rather than have it tethered to a floating buoy. Pots can be strung together with ...

CHESAPEAKE CITY — The Town of Chesapeake City is looking for crab pot donations to keep their staple crab pot Christmas Tree display up to par in future years. Town officials said they are very ...

Mar. 19—Starting May 1, a reduced pot limit and 14-day landing requirement will be in effect for the Washington coastal Dungeness crab fishery. The intent of these requirements is to reduce the ...