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Additionally, new regulations enforce crab traps to have only one central buoy at least 5 inches by 11 inches in size, and one 3-by-5-inch red market buoy.
Additionally, new regulations enforce crab traps to have only one central buoy at least 5 inches by 11 inches in size, and one 3-by-5-inch red market buoy.
We've had a lot of discouraging news recently about the Dungeness crab season being delayed here in the Bay Area. But a recent big development could help turn the situation around this spring. It ...
A pilot program to test new pop-up crab traps in the San Francisco Bay Area could mean a longer fishing season and lower prices on local Dungeness crab for consumers.
Grant Bundy, Jr., pulls up what he thought was a crab trap from his father's flooded ramp after Hurricane Ida at Bundy's Seafood in Lafitte, La., Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021.
The winning crew pulled 30 crab traps from in and around Tampa Bay in roughly five hours. The 3-person team's total haul weighed in at more than 900 pounds of traps.
Oregon crabbers must continue to limit the number of traps they can set in the water. The state has extended crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from becoming trapped in ropes.