The delayed commercial crab season has led Central Coast seafood shops to source crabs from outside the area, ensuring ...

Researchers working in Norway's Barents Sea say a simple modification to snow crab pots could sharply reduce the number of ...

The European green crab, a highly invasive species that has disrupted shellfish harvests and ecosystems worldwide, has been ...

Officials in the U.S. state of Oregon have decided to delay the state's commercial Dungeness crab season by at least two ...

The season will be delayed as crabs across the Columbia River in Long Beach, Wash. have not yet met the required meat fill ...

Wildlife officials are looking at how a young humpback stranded alive near Yachats became entangled in crab gear — and what ...

Again this year, California officials are delaying the state’s commercial Dungeness crab season because of the “numerous reports” throughout 2025 of migrating humpback whales getting ensnared by old ...

The recreational Dungeness crab season is set to open Nov. 1, except in Northern California, where it has been delayed for another year for health reasons. State health agencies found that the ...

A Humpback whale swims off the coast of San Diego, California, in 2022, entangled with the lines of two commercial Dungeness crab traps. The line is deeply embedded in the flesh of the whale. (Photo ...

PORT ANGELES — Organizers for the Dungeness Crab Festival aren’t looking at the weather. And they suggest you don’t either. “This is a rain-and-shine event, and we have fun no matter what,” festival ...

Crab fishing in California has never been so complicated. Recent seasons have been delayed, truncated and subject to mandatory gear reductions for a variety of reasons, including a spike in whale ...