Update: A decision was made Nov. 1 to restrict the use of traps in two zones and to delay the commercial season in those zones as well. Click here for the update. Under new rules, California’s fish ...

This Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2025-2026 season in our area. Commercial ...

HOUMA -- A 16-day effort to remove derelict crab traps from the Terrebonne Basin got off to a healthy start Saturday as about 3,500 of the metal devices were collected at four area marinas. "It went ...

The wind was blowing a stout 15 knots out of the southeast, making it hard for local inshore guide Yano Serra to cast the fly. He was trying to get the shrimp imitation in front of a tripletail -- ...

Abandoned or lost fishing gear, including traps, crab pots and nets, along with military ordnance, trashed industrial barrels and other sea junk litter coastal and offshore waters along the ...

The wiry cubes used to haul in plump blue crabs headed for boiling pots across south Louisiana are an example of old-school efficiency – except when they’re abandoned. The large number of abandoned or ...

DULARGE -- As Captain John Verret’s boat glides across the water south of Bayou Dularge, a postcard-worthy scene comes into view: healthy swaths of marsh, a clear spring sky, wading birds catching ...

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps must be removed from some northwest Florida waters before Jan. 5, the first day of a 10-day trap closure. Blue crab traps may not be in state waters (shore ...

WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reminding crabbers that a 10-day blue crab trap closure period will begin July 20 in the Big Bend. Both ...

Update: A decision was made Nov. 1 to restrict the use of traps in two zones and to delay the commercial season in those zones as well. Click here for the update. Under new rules, California’s fish ...