The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will open the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in the Central Management Area (Sonoma/Mendocino County line (38°46.125’ N. latitude) to Point ...

California's commercial Dungeness crab season is set to open on January 5 with limits on the number of commercial traps ...

In Alaska, the last stronghold for wild salmon, Native tribes and conservationists are working to save the fish from both ...

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Lacking the usual amount of data to guide them, federal fishery managers relied on last year’s reports to set the coming year ...

As warming waters and rising labour costs threaten supplies of a British favourite, could a tropical species save our national dish from extinction?

The Coast Guard stationed a helicopter at Yaquina Bay, Ore., after a fishing boat capsized in 1985, killing three people because rescue aircraft were too far away to respond fast enough. When the ...

Alaska's commercial fishing industry has seen its workforce shrink for five straight years, according to state labor officials. Shutterstock photo. Alaska's commercial fishing industry, facing lower ...

British Columbia sea wolves have been observed by researchers using their teeth to haul crab traps ashore where they would eat the bait intended for invasive green crabs. The discovery caught on ...

WESTPORT, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard says a crabbing boat crew helped save four people on a fishing vessel in the Pacific Ocean Monday morning. According to the Coast Guard, the crew of the Abby C.

Supporters of the legislation argue it would protect a declining horseshoe crab population, while opponents warn it will harm the commercial fishing industry. By Jon Hurdle Conservationists are ...

Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...