SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The first catch is in. Commercial Dungeness crab season officially started Sunday in Northern California. Crab fishermen were happy to be back at work, and the public was hungry ...

Dr. Alan Shanks has spent decades predicting Oregon's valuable Dungeness crab harvest by studying the baby crabs, with ...

This was the third year of California-sponsored trials for the equipment used to catch Dungeness crabs while avoiding whale entanglements. Ropeless fishing gear is proving effective at avoiding whale ...

San Francisco — San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, known to many as a tourist attraction, harbors a small fleet of fishing boats that might otherwise be catching crabs this time of year. However, ...

You know it’ll be a good Christmas for seafood lovers (and people who earn their living catching those hauls) when Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crabbing season opens in December. On Dec. 16, the ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will open the commercial Dungeness crab fishery from the Sonoma/Mendocino county line to the U.S./Mexico border beginning Jan. 5 at 12:01 a.m.

When winter weather settles on the Oregon Coast, crab boats wait for the all-clear announcement from the Oregon Department of ...

Beaufort native Brett Everett races across the glassy surface of the Morgan River in a 22-foot boat on a muggy 71-degree morning, using the Lowcountry waterway to drive deep into the salt marshes. But ...

However, migrating endangered humpback whales are now swimming in the same waters outside the Golden Gate strait where crabs are, and long lines of rope that fishermen traditionally use to pull up ...