California has run a pilot program since 2023 to try out so-called pop-up gear to find a solution to crabbers' woes.

State officials said commercial fishery will remain open in Zones 1 and 2, which extend north from the Sonoma-Mendocino ...

The state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement the closure is meant to reduce entanglement risk to the ...

A s of May 1, commercial crab fishing will be closed throughout the Bay Area. This is earlier than technically possible, as ...

All open Fishing Zones remain under a Fleet Advisory for both the commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries.

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

The change in temperature drove whales, many of them threatened or endangered humpbacks, to seek out food sources closer to ...

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 ...

Pop-up gear, meant to prevent whale entanglements while crab fishing, front, sits on Pier 45 as James Sanders loads crab traps onto the boat Pale Horse in San Francisco, Thursday, April 10, 2025 ...

James Sanders zip ties crab traps before loading them onto the boat Pale Horse at Pier 45 in San Francisco, Thursday, April 10, 2025. The boat's crew is trying out pop-up gear aimed at preventing ...