A petition filed by environmental groups is asking state regulators for regulations on crab pots to lessen their deadly ...

In early August, blue crab fans took over Lewes, Delaware, for the Crab Pot Jamboree, where the biggest catch was learning how to avoid turning your crab pot into an underwater lost-and-found.

According to the filing, active and abandoned crab pots can kill 60,000 to 80,000 terrapins each year. “A fleet of active blue crab pots is capable of steadily removing individual terrapins from ...

There’s nothing quite like a big pile of steamed blue crabs, covered in Old Bay seasoning, served with drawn butter, an ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that would ...

Since 2001, volunteers and TPWD staff have scooped up almost 44,000 derelict traps, saving an estimated 720,000 blue crabs. The Texas legislature authorized TPWD to create the Annual Crab Trap ...

Facing a truncated season and sharp limits on how many pots they ... populations of blue whales, gray whales and the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle. The annual crab season ...