Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Test results are in on a technology that could help keep a popular Bay Area seafood on the table. They're specially designed traps to fish for Dungeness crab, without ...

No one knows how many derelict crab traps sit in Texas bays, silently going about their grim business of annually trapping, killing and wasting tens of thousands of crabs, fish and other marine ...

The wiry cubes used to haul in plump blue crabs headed for boiling pots across south Louisiana are an example of old-school efficiency – except when they’re abandoned. The large number of abandoned or ...

Update: A decision was made Nov. 1 to restrict the use of traps in two zones and to delay the commercial season in those zones as well. Click here for the update. Under new rules, California’s fish ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2020, recreational harvesters age 16 and older who fish with blue crab traps will need to complete an online, no-cost recreational blue crab trap registration before placing their ...