Dolphins in Australia have learned how to snatch bait from crab traps—and now, researchers say they’ve captured the clever behavior on camera for the first time ever. The bait-stealing saga may have ...

The wind was blowing a stout 15 knots out of the southeast, making it hard for local inshore guide Yano Serra to cast the fly. He was trying to get the shrimp imitation in front of a tripletail -- ...

Q: I belong to a popular fishing forum on the Internet, and most of my fellow sport fishermen say that when they bait their crab traps/pots, they can use whatever bait they want. Many people are using ...

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

Those who call these the “dog days of summer” must’ve never heard about the versatile Florida blue crab, who shows no slowdown as the temps rise and grow stubborn. Throughout the intracoastal, you’ll ...

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 ...

October can be a fickle month when it comes to weather. Quite often there can be be days on end of strong northeasterly and easterly winds which blow 24/7, as we have seen this past week. Not only do ...

No one knows how many derelict crab traps sit in Texas bays, silently going about their grim business of annually trapping, killing and wasting tens of thousands of crabs, fish and other marine ...

Since 2002, volunteers mucking around in the winter-chilled shallows of Texas coastal bays over a 10-day period each February have, conservatively, saved 2 million blue crabs and untold millions of ...

HACKBERRY, LA (KPLC) - Many Cameron Parish fishermen rely on crabbing for at least part of their livelihood and they agree, the resource must be protected. Yet the 30-day ban on crab traps comes at ...

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 ...