The answer to relieving seafood market sticker shock is crab traps. The last time I stood at a seafood counter, Dungeness crab was $25 per pound and a dozen blue crabs cost over $50. Meanwhile these ...

A small group working out of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge made perhaps the biggest haul of the recently concluded, weeklong effort to remove some of the thousands of derelict crab traps in ...

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 ...

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 ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A team of rescuers helped free a dolphin after it was entangled in crab trap lines in Brevard County. Boaters noticed a bottle-nosed dolphin’s tail caught in the ropes near the ...

Hundreds of traps are abandoned each year, leaving an ecological terror on the seafloor. Volunteers pulled a whopping 8,384 pounds of abandoned crab traps from the ...

This coming winter, Texas gets a start on cleaning up the tens of thousands of abandoned and lost crab traps littering coastal bays. This past week, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. -- About 140 volunteers will fan out in search of derelict crab traps beginning Thursday in the state Department of Marine Resources' derelict crab trap removal program. Derelict ...

A tight-knit Tampa Bay crabbing community is facing environmental and economic challenges, but the payoff can be as sweet as ...