For the past 23 years, volunteers have been an essential part of cleaning up crab traps along the Texas coast, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said. Since 2001, volunteers and TPWD staff ...

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.

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.

He says the new regulations also allow crab fishman to daisy-chain dozens of traps to a single pop-up line, reducing the cost. "You know, that actually means they don't have to buy nearly as many ...

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.

After deploying more than 23,000 traps, crews were able to recover them with a 98% reliability rate, while harvesting nearly 230,000 pounds of Dungeness Crab. They say the catch is worth an ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A baby dolphin was rescued on Wednesday under Pier 60 in Clearwater after getting tangled in the remnants of a crab trap. After an unsuccessful attempt to reunite the calf ...

Crab traps are cages that fishers attach to buoys with lines and ropes that whales can become tangled in. They have ensnared at least three, and possibly as many as five, humpback whales off the ...

The U.S. is launching a new program that will target the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps. William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science will anchor the program.

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. — Two Chatham County police officers helped to save a dolphin Friday that ended up getting stuck in a crab trap. The department said two officers with its marine patrol ...