Dungeness crab season, which is normally expected to begin in November, opened at 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning in all but two zones along the coast.

Bradly Courtright caught a massive flathead catfish on a trotline on May 14 that nearly broke the state record. It weighed 95 pounds.

Starting next Monday, commercial crab season starts for most of the Oregon coast. Fishermen are both excited and nervous to find out what this season will bring.

State officials opened the central coast of California to recreational Dungeness crab season on Thursday and commercial season could open as soon as late next week.

On May 13, Bradly Courtright caught a massive flathead catfish on a trotline. Officials say it's one of the heavier flatheads ever caught in the state, and the biggest to be pulled from Pine Creek ...

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The commercial Dungeness crab season in California will come to an end early to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines, officials announced Thursday.

Fish and Wildlife officials have just delayed commercial crab season for a fourth time this year.

Prior to the mid-1960s, Louisiana commercial crabbers used trotlines and dip nets to harvest blue crabs. By 1970, modern crab traps had entirely replaced the inefficient trotline method.