Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

The season, which runs through May 1, 2026, opened Oct. 15, but it typically takes about a week for fishermen and fish houses ...

The crabbing season is now officially delayed because there's a lot of sea life out there -- including whales and turtles -- ...

After a two-year hiatus forced by low stocks, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is back on. The decision to reopen the harvest, announced on Oct. 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is based ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Recreational Dungeness crab season in Zone 4 -- from Pigeon Point near Pescadero to Lopez Point on the Big Sur coast -- is set to open at 9 a.m. Friday but new restrictions ...

Fourteen vessels had landed about 680,000 pounds of Bristol Bay king crab as of Wednesday, Oct. 23. 2024. The average weight is 6.84 pounds, and the catch rate is 35 legal males per pot. Both of those ...

The U.S. state of Alaska has canceled the forthcoming 2026 Kodiak commercial tanner crab season to let the population recover ...

Recent aerial surveys over Dungeness crab fishing ranges above and below San Francisco spotted a large congregation of humpbacks, meaning a halt to the start of this year’s fishing season in the most ...

For decades, Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts have been driven by a simple equation: Cleaner water equals more fish and shellfish. The 1983 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, which launched the state-federal ...

Before Florida’s stone crab season officially kicked off, local restaurants, wholesalers and seafood markets all said early ...