Oregon's 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 even ...

SEQUIM — The Clallam Marine Resources Committee will offer four workshops in Jefferson and Clallam counties as part of a granted-funded outreach program designed to reduce the number of derelict crab ...

Feeling crabby about not having any New Year’s Eve plans? Don’t sweat — the Downtown Hampton Development Partnership is bringing back a popular tradition: The New Year’s Eve crab pot drop. From 9 p.m.

New rules set by Canada's Department of Oceans and Fisheries to limit the amount of crab pot rope that can be left floating on the surface won't have a major impact on snow crab harvesters in the Gulf ...

A 50-year-old crabber drowned after his kayak flipped and he got tangled in rope in Washington, deputies said. The man was crabbing Monday, July 1, in the Hood Canal in Seabeck, the Kitsap County ...

The man who drowned Sunday morning near the mouth of the Tomales Bay was identified Monday as a 40-year-old San Jose man. Thong Hoang Nguyen died after he was pulled underwater when he got tangled in ...

Leatherback sea turtles are endangered, but there's been a flurry of recent sightings — and a few near-fatal trappings — in the Lowcountry recently. On Saturday, a leatherback sea turtle was seen ...

Local marine biologists took on the risky task of trying to save a 25-foot humpback whale in distress. They were able to free the whale after a dangerous attempt two weeks ago. The humpback was first ...