The wiry cubes used to haul in plump blue crabs headed for boiling pots across south Louisiana are an example of old-school efficiency – except when they’re abandoned. The large number of abandoned or ...

Stacks of derelict crab traps collected from the Chesapeake Bay as part of the Virginia Marine Debris Removal Program. “This is a special program because it allows local communities to tackle the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— A new rule aimed at protecting diamondback terrapin turtles from drowning in recreational blue crab traps will go into effect Wednesday, March 1. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

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 ...

The sun shimmered over calm waters as a small Florida International University research vessel zigzagged slowly across Biscayne Bay on a hot and humid Saturday morning. Aboard the boat, a team from ...

(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 ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KRON) — A commercial crab fisherman is facing charges for unlawfully setting crab traps in a Marina Protected Area off the coast of Half Moon Bay, prosecutors said. The San Mateo ...

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 ...

(KRON) — A humpback whale that was first observed half a year ago off the Monterey coast to be entangled in lines from a Dungeness crab trap was freed by a team of experts earlier this month, National ...

Footage of a hungry wolf performing a complex sequence of behaviors on the coast of British Columbia could potentially mark the first case of tool use in wild canids. The wolf swam into deep water to ...

An Australian fisherman’s bad day at sea took an odd turn when he learned via camera footage that his catch was being devoured on the seafloor by a “bloody big” creature with eyes like a cat.