Delaware Sea Grant’s Kate Fleming and the University of Delaware’s Art Trembanis went out in Rehoboth Bay in 2019 with a side-scan sonar to conduct exploratory surveys in 100 acres of Rehoboth Bay to ...

ARE FORCING FISHERMAN IN THE MONTEREY BAY TO RETHINK THEIR BUSINESS MODEL... AND IN SOME CASES LEAVE THE INDUSTRY ALL TOGETHER. ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER CAITLIN CONRAD JOINS WITH MONTEREY THE STORY ...

Mar. 19—Starting May 1, a reduced pot limit and 14-day landing requirement will be in effect for the Washington coastal Dungeness crab fishery. The intent of these requirements is to reduce the risk ...

Summer is officially here. For most Marylanders, that also means crab season. Enjoying a bushel of steamed blue crabs is the unofficial tradition of Maryland summers. Throughout the Chesapeake and ...

SALEM, Ore. — Dungeness crab season is coming up, but there’s a problem looming over this fishery. The ropes and buoys that allow crabbers to collect their crab pots from the seafloor can injure and ...

NOAA Fisheries has established a federal task force to address the problem of humpback whales becoming entangled in ...

While most Alaskans were preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, the residents of Tenakee Springs worked to free a whale tangled in buoys and crab pots. “We were first alerted about this entangled whale ...

Manunauna, nicknamed Manu, trailing yellow crab pot buoys and a green satellite tag buoy. (Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries/Suzie Teerlink) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration biologists ...

Olympic College student Dylan Diefendorf led a team to victory at the University of Washington’s Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge for a more environmentally friendly crab-pot and ...

EDMONDS — Washington State Ferries is asking crabbers to keep their crab pots out of ferry lanes after stray traps caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to three vessels last summer. The ...

The specter of ghost crab pots looms large beneath the waters of the Delaware Inland Bays. In addition to littering the seafloor, these derelict crab pots — pots that have been lost or abandoned — can ...