After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

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.

One minute to go until the start of Dungeness crab season. In the pitch black sea, Day’s radiant orange buoys bob with the promise of a payday. In total, he has set out 250 crab traps.

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.

The commercial fishery will close in Fishing Zones 4, 5 and 6 (Pigeon Point, San Mateo County, to the U.S./Mexico border), at which time the commercial take and possession of Dungeness crab from those ...

This is one of the worst violations of this kind we have seen in many years’ – Dan Chadwick, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...