After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on t ...

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

Some important changes are coming to the world of crabbing this year, all with the goal of protecting and preserving South ...

Ever wonder where those claws came from? You can thank your nearest stone crab for his sacrifice. Also, Indian and St. Johns ...

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

Not too very long ago, before the storm of a lifetime, there was a quaint section of town just beyond the levee, curiously ...

Sosnowski's bill would require "anyone" who traps green crabs to get a license and report their catch to the state, a ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the Large Whale Entanglement Response Network freed a humpback whale that had been entangled in crab traps off Monterey since October ...

State regulators in Washington have approved a new line marking rule for traps used in the state’s Dungeness crab fishery in ...

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

The owners of Ruby's Soul Food & BBQ, a new restaurant in Gastonia, want customers to feel like Ruby herself is in the ...

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