State regulators in Washington have approved a new line marking rule for traps used in the state’s Dungeness crab fishery in the hopes of reducing the risk vertical lines pose to whales.

All open Fishing Zones remain under a Fleet Advisory for both the commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries.

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The Town of Chesapeake City is looking for crab pot donations to keep their staple crab pot Christmas Tree display up to par ...

A proposal to keep diamondback terrapins from drowning when trapped in Chesapeake Bay crab pots is sparking angry objections from watermen.

THORNE BAY, Alaska (WKRC) - Two French bulldogs that went missing a month ago were found dead in a pair of crab pots. During routine shellfish pot inspections near Thorne Bay on March 14 ...

Two French bulldogs who were missing for more than a month in Alaska have been found dead inside a pair of crab pots — with their owners believing they were abducted and killed in a sick ...

One month later, troopers were on a routine inspection of shellfish pots, according to an official release. They found two crab traps – each with the remains of one of the missing dogs.