State regulators in Washington have approved a new line marking rule for traps used in the state’s Dungeness crab fishery in the hopes of reducing the risk vertical lines pose to whales.

In an effort to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear, state officials have announced that ...

Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group is using a simple light trapping technique to collect survey data and learn more about ...

All open Fishing Zones remain under a Fleet Advisory for both the commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries.

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The state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says it will reevaluate the move later this month, depending on the risk fishing ...

Each trap costs around $300 all accounted for ... not in an existential way. The Dungeness crab industry — or fishery — brings in more than $50 million in a good year and naturally cycles ...

There are confirmed reports of a humpback whale currently entangled in multiple sets of Dungeness crab gear of Monterey ... stores the rope and buoy with a trap on the seafloor until an acoustic ...

The state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says it will reevaluate the move later this month, depending on the risk fishing ...

Screengrab from The Crab Trap's Facebook page ... a smorgasbord of seafood dishes including steamed oysters, crawfish, dungeness crab, and peel & eat shrimp by the pound, according to its website.