In Alaska, last fall's shocking collapse of the snow crab fishery shows that conditions for sea life can and are rapidly changing.

Alaska's snow crab fishing industry came to a standstill in 2022 after an alarming disappearance of the animals, and now scientists are increasingly confident that man-made climate change is to ...

Find your escape. Explore Maryland's beautiful bayfront eateries where delicious crab feasts are served with a side of ...

New ropeless fishing gear is showing promise in reducing whale entanglements, potentially revolutionizing the crab industry ...

Fishing for California Dungeness crabs can begin on Jan. 5. between the Sonoma-Mendocino county line to the boarder with Mexico.

Whales that get caught in Dungeness crab fishing gear have left fishermen and environmentalists scrambling for a solution.

Oceana, a Monterey-based environmental nonprofit, wants the state to announce the end of the Dungeness crab fishing season.

Twenty crab fishermen have signed up to try out new gear that does not pose the same entanglement threat.

Last week, the State Legislature agreed to ban the taking of American horseshoe crabs as bait for commercial fishing and for biomedical use. In New York, horseshoe crabs are used for bait to catch ...

With whales present, wildlife department stops crab fishing to reduce entanglement threat A humpback whale entangled in fishing line was spotted off Newport Beach in 2016.

With humpback whales heading back to their feeding grounds off coastal California and gray whales migrating north to Alaska, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will close t… ...