After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

Unlike the floating vertical trap lines that can sometimes entangle migrating whales, the pop-up buoys sit on the ocean floor ...

In total, he has set out 250 crab traps. Every buoy is attached to a thin rope that stretches 200 feet down to a cylindrical, metal-and-wire pot on the ocean floor. Day spent the previous month ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the Large Whale Entanglement Response Network freed a humpback whale that had been entangled in crab traps off Monterey since October ...

The gear lets fishermen use a remote-operated, acoustic release device to pop-up a crab pot from the ocean floor rather than have it tethered to a floating buoy. Pots can be strung together with ...