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 ...

Reaching out of the boat with a long metal hook, marine biologist Parker White snagged the slimy buoy bobbing off the southeastern coast of Lake Maurepas on a recent windy, gray morning. As fellow ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – On January 5 the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began its ten-day-long blue crab trap closure. This closure gives groups, authorized by the FWC, time to ...

It’s almost that time of year again for volunteers to help Texas Parks and Wildlife with a crucial conservation task: scouring the Texas coast for abandoned crab traps, which when left unchecked, can ...

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 ...

Deep in a quiet river dead end, the crew builds a crab trap using only natural materials—and the results are shocking. Watch ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We've had a lot of discouraging news recently about the Dungeness crab season being delayed here in the Bay Area. But a recent big development could help turn the situation ...

It worked so well last year, they're doing it again. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is recruiting another army of volunteers to help with its second annual coastal cleanup of abandoned crab ...

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters of the St. Johns River system must be removed from the water before Jan. 16, the first day of a 10-day trap closure, the FWC said in a news ...