Here's how newly approved pop-up traps could extend the Bay Area crab season after years of experimentation and approvals.

Since 2002, volunteers and TPWD staff have removed nearly 45,000 abandoned crab traps from Texas bays, saving an estimated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Florida stone crab trapping has a lot more “gotchas” than most first-timers expect, and some of the key requirements have been tightened in recent seasons. Recreational crabbers now need the free ...

It’s almost that time of year again for volunteers to help Texas Parks and Wildlife with a crucial conservation task: scouring the Texas coast for abandoned crab traps, which when left unchecked, can ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Efforts to protect migrating whales from becoming entangled in fishing lines, is once again cutting short the spring crab season off the California coast. But now, a potential ...

The goal is to cut down on "ghost fishing." ...

(CN) — Recreational and commercial crab fishing in California will be restricted as large groups of humpback whales continue to forage along the coastline, the California Department of Fish and ...

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters of the St. Johns River system must be removed from the water before Jan. 16, the first day of a 10-day trap closure, the FWC said in a news ...