Question: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net people use for ...

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

Q: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought that I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net that people use for ...

Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2023-2024 season. In order to avoid entanglements with the large number of whales feeding in nearshore areas along ...

Dungeness crab season has hit a snag in California. The recreational Dungeness crab season officially opened on November 1, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- State fishery officials have delayed the start of Dungeness crab fishing season from Monterey to Point Arena along the Mendocino County coast at least until just days before ...

An experiment earlier this summer using hoop nets instead of trap nets to sample channel catfish along the U.S. portion of the Red River yielded results that exceeded even the most optimistic ...

With local lobster costing about $25 per pound, it makes sense to look into the world of hoop netting for lobsters. Ben Hong from Promar Nets said lobster hoop netters have had good success this year.

Sometimes the fishing is tough, even for guys allowed to catch 'em with electricity or giant nets. Kevin Hopkins and Jon Stein use both in their work to keep tabs on the fish population at Beaver Lake ...

Hundreds of turtles and fingerling-sized catfish were rescued at a South Texas Lake earlier this week. Texas Game Wardens discovered the animals trapped inside several illegal hoop nets. Illegal ...