The traps are scattered from Bonita Springs north to Tampa Bay, and some fishermen have reported losing thousands to barges ...

More than 500 lucky crustaceans were spared this year.

Nearly 1,000 abandoned crab traps were cleared from Texas bays this year, rescuing marine life and cleaning up coastlines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local stone crabbers say hundreds of their traps lay ruined on the Gulf floor, and now they're taking the fight to court.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers captured footage of wild wolves in British Columbia using crab traps to eat the bait inside, in the first evidence of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Efforts to protect migrating whales from becoming entangled in fishing lines, is once again cutting short the spring crab season off the California coast. But now, a potential ...