Boaters found a struggling creature tangled in line from a crab trap in Florida waters, and the animal needed an amputation and 16 months of rehab. Now, Mischief the 140-pound loggerhead sea ...

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 ...

Sometimes when a new shell turns up, hermit crabs will form a line, biggest to smallest, to see which animal fits the new shell. The next smallest will take that crab’s hand-me-down home ...

For the first time, a study led by University of Oxford researchers has listened in to the fascinating courtship displays of ...

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.

The state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says it will reevaluate the move later this month, depending on the risk fishing ...

In the pitch black sea, Day’s radiant orange buoys bob ... with its several hundred thousand vertical lines in the water each crab season, as an explanation. Entanglements may be made worse ...

I also spied the multi-item Captain’s Platter as well as crab cakes and soft-shell crab. In the interest of keeping things as simple as possible (and because I’m an oyster fiend), I decided to ...

Washington will soon have another tool to support long-term management for one of the highest-priority invasive species, European green crab, thanks to additional state funding dedicated to genetic re ...