California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in fishing gear. With a truncated season and sharp limits on gear, crabbers wonder ...

Humpback whale populations have increased, but a change in migration patterns has them staying in Monterey Bay during the ...

The Dungeness crab fleet has been cut in half since 1980, and with other fisheries facing their own challenges, the overall California commercial fishing fleet shrank by 80% in the same period.

To the editor: Entanglement in crab fishing gear is one of the biggest threats to whales — highly intelligent, complex, majestic animals. (“New fishing gear means California can have its crab ...

Since first bringing its products to market three years ago, Vallation Outerwear in Poulsbo, Washington, has steadily grown ...

Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery is under increasing pressure to address whale entanglements after a ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the coastal species that appear most vulnerable to climate risks.

including the Dungeness crab fishery. Pop-up fishing gear, which has been successful in California, is a potential solution for allowing whale-safe fishing during closures to conventional gear.

Dungeness crab fishermen pull a crab pot out of the ocean near Bodega Bay, Calif. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) After Stephen A. Smith Said He’d Divorce Serena Williams Over That ...

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The Dungeness crab season had opened just a few ... to and from tropical breeding grounds get entangled in commercial crab fishing gear, encounters that often end in mutilation or death.