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

these new crab traps settle onto the ocean floor as before, but with a coiled rope inside tied to a buoy. A signal from the boat then triggers the buoy to release allowing boats to pull up the ...

In total, he has set out 250 crab traps. Every buoy is attached to a thin rope that stretches 200 feet down to a cylindrical, metal-and-wire pot on the ocean floor. Day spent the previous month ...