Abandoned crab pots can be a serious issue in the Chesapeake Bay. As long as there is bait in them they will continue to catch crabs. A dead crab in an abandoned pot becomes bait. But a recent article ...

Viewers reached out to us saying they saw animal parts on a popular Southwest Florida beach. The City of Sanibel said Thursday pigs’ feet beachgoers saw washed ashore are bait used in crab traps.

Over the winter, search and recovery teams scoured bays and rivers for a prolific killer of marine life: abandoned crab traps, also known as "ghost pots." Very often, the teams arrived too late to ...

One of the biggest down sides to a dismal coastal fall chinook season such as is sadly shaping up this year is the lack of salmon heads and carcasses. No, not the eggs (although, as one reader points ...

This Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2025-2026 season in our area. Commercial ...

Local and state lawmakers are considering measures that would crack down on a fishing practice for Dungeness crabs that critics say depletes the ocean waters of most of the legal-sized catch within ...

STUART, Fla. (CBS 12) — For Brandon Miller, recreational crabbing was his favorite hobby as a little boy. “I have been catching crabs with my father since I was 14 or 15,” said Miller. “When I finally ...

LEWES, Del. (AP) — Researchers announced Wednesday that a new bait alternative may help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested to be used as bait. Female horseshoe crabs are considered the ...