October can be a fickle month when it comes to weather. Quite often there can be be days on end of strong northeasterly and easterly winds which blow 24/7, as we have seen this past week. Not only do ...

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 California Department of Fish and Wildlife continued their stoppage of crab fishing with traps in the Monterey Bay for the protection of the whales. The reason for the delay is to protect the ...

Oregon has extended rules restricting the state's lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps, the state's fish and ...

Wild wolves have been spotted pulling crab traps from waters off Canada in what scientists say may be the first documented ...

Update: A decision was made Nov. 1 to restrict the use of traps in two zones and to delay the commercial season in those zones as well. Click here for the update. Under new rules, California’s fish ...

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 ...

A new study documented wild wolves using ropes to pull crab traps ashore, offering what may be the first proof of tool use by ...

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 ...

TO STILL GO OUT AND TURN A PROFIT DURING WHALE MIGRATION SEASON... WHILE KEEPING OUR MARINE LIFE SAFE... NORMAL CRAB TRAPS SIT ON THE SEA FLOOR WITH A LINE TRAVELING UP TO A BUOY AT THE SURFACE ...

STUART, Fla. (CBS 12) — For Brandon Miller, recreational crabbing was his favorite hobby as a little boy. “I have been catching crabs with my father since I was 14 or 15,” said Miller. “When I finally ...