Crab "pots" are the cage-like contraptions used to trap crabs, usually blue crabs. The pots are square and made of metal mesh that looks like chicken wire. Pots measure about 2 feet wide, 2 feet ...

If you enjoy tossing a line or pot out for blue crabs, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) wants you to be aware of a few changes coming to the fishery in 2025.

Major recommendations include: setting a cap of 100 commercial crabbing licenses in the blue crab fishery; limiting the number of crab pots per commercial license to 200; establishing a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina is changing its blue crab fishing laws for 2025 to improve sustainability and prevent overfishing, according to the Department of Natural Resources ...

UNDATED- Crabbing season is well underway, and that means hundreds of thousands of crab pots are in the Chesapeake Bay catching blue crabs. Every morning during crabbing season, you can see ...

The specter of ghost crab pots looms large beneath the waters of the Delaware Inland Bays. In addition to littering the seafloor, these derelict crab pots — pots that have been lost or abandoned — can ...

Researchers estimate that about 145,000 derelict pots haunt the Chesapeake Bay. They believe the ghost pots trap more than six million blue crabs each year and kill half of them.

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters of the St. Johns River system must be removed from the water before Jan. 16, the first day of a 10-day trap closure, the FWC said in a ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— Conservation groups filed a petition today asking the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to adopt regulations that would protect diamondback terrapins from drowning ...

Summer is officially here. For most Marylanders, that also means crab season. Enjoying a bushel of steamed blue crabs is the unofficial tradition of Maryland summers. Throughout the Chesapeake and ...

Kevin Nashan of Sidney Street Cafe in St. Louis, Mo., made Blue Crab Pot Pies for the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Dec. 6, 2016, at Josephine Estelle at the Ace Hotel. (Photo by Kevin Nathan ...

The Chesapeake Bay might have a new resident, thanks to warming waters and successful habitat restoration. Blue crabs are the ...