In a significant enforcement action, a commercial fishing vessel operating out of Westport, Washington, has been apprehended ...

State regulators in Washington have approved a new line marking rule for traps used in the state’s Dungeness crab fishery in ...

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

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

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.

A humpback whale that was first observed half a year ago off the Monterey coast to be entangled in lines from a Dungeness ...

Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials today shut down California’s commercial salmon fishing season for ...

Federal budget cuts to NOAA are delaying plans to prevent whale entanglements in Dungeness crab fishing gear, impacting both ...

“Unfortunately, it has been six years we've been delayed or closed early for whales,” said Brand Little, a San Francisco Dungeness crab fisherman who is among those participating in the pilot ...