The conflict between protecting endangered species and supporting vital cultures is at play in other places as well. In ...

Dolphins have learned how to outsmart crab fishers by stealing the bait from their pots — and new footage has captured the unique behavior for the first time. The bottlenose dolphins watch as ...

Crab trap floats that have washed up on the sand hold valuable clues about where they came from and what type of fishing they ...

The Dungeness crab fishery is under increasing regulation as California tries to prevent whales from getting entangled in fishing gear. Facing a truncated season and sharp limits on how many pots ...

The answer to relieving seafood market sticker shock is crab traps. The last time I stood at a seafood counter, Dungeness crab was $25 per pound and a dozen blue crabs cost over $50. Meanwhile these ...

Two French bulldogs who were missing for more than a month in Alaska have been found dead inside a pair of crab pots — with their owners believing they were abducted and killed in a sick ...

Getty The remains of two French bulldogs who went missing more than a month ago in Alaska were found in a pair of crab pots. Alaska Wildlife Troopers made the tragic discovery while conducting a ...

Rocky lifts a crab pot — essentially a large wire cage — from the water while Billy sorts the crabs by size. Rice says that he and his son have about 300 crab pots. “They’re basically ...

Nearby stacks of crab pots teetered as his dad throttled the boat past the Skagit River delta and carved deeper into the fog. As the salty mist enveloped the deck, Dom Wilbur and his cousin Alex ...

Authorities threw the crab pots back into the water, hoping the owner would turn up to claim them — but they were taken in the middle of the night, Martin said, meaning the owner remains a mystery.