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 ...

Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations that would ...

It’s almost that time of year again for volunteers to help Texas Parks and Wildlife with a crucial conservation task: scouring the Texas coast for abandoned crab traps, which when left unchecked, can ...

Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Milbridge, a former farmer is grinding invasive green crabs into fertilizer. In South Portland, a Cambodian food incubator ...

It worked so well last year, they're doing it again. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is recruiting another army of volunteers to help with its second annual coastal cleanup of abandoned crab ...

Recreational and commercial blue crab enthusiasts along Florida's west coast, specifically from Broward through Pasco counties, are advised to remove all blue crab traps from coastal waters before ...