This Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2025-2026 season in our area.

The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other fish in coastal waters from Maine to Alaska. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- 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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For Brand Little and the crew of the Pale Horse, fishing for Dungeness crab is an increasingly tight business. Like the rest of the fleet, he's watched the crabbing season ...

Volunteer kayakers marked derelict crab traps in the bay across from the USS Alabama Battleship on Friday, Oct. 24.

(CN) — The recreational Dungeness crab season is returning next month to California, with restrictions.

Prior research has demonstrated that red bycatch devices (BRDs) inserted into the funnels of crab traps exclude terrapin bycatch and enhance the capture of preferred male blue crabs. We tried a trap ...

FORT DE SOTO — A team of volunteers boated into Tampa Bay on a recent Saturday morning with their mind welded to a singular mission: Scan the vast waters of Florida’s largest open-water estuary for ...