Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

Reaching out of the boat with a long metal hook, marine biologist Parker White snagged the slimy buoy bobbing off the southeastern coast of Lake Maurepas on a recent windy, gray morning. As fellow ...

Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2023-2024 season. In order to avoid entanglements with the large number of whales feeding in nearshore areas along ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other fish in coastal waters from Maine ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Test results are in on a technology that could help keep a popular Bay Area seafood on the table. They're specially designed traps to fish for Dungeness crab, without ...

Oregon has extended rules restricting the state's lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps, the state's fish and ...

The coast of British Columbia is experiencing a crab problem. But trying to control the crab problem appears to have surfaced an unexpected wolf problem—one that reveals the surprising capacity of ...

A female wild wolf on the central coast of British Columbia was caught on video pulling a crab trap out of the ocean and eating the bait, marking the first documented case of tool use by the animal.