State officials said commercial fishery will remain open in Zones 1 and 2, which extend north from the Sonoma-Mendocino ...

A new crab trap regulation will take effect next Thursday to protect whales off the coast of Northern California.

California has run a pilot program since 2023 to try out so-called pop-up gear to find a solution to crabbers' woes.

The state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement the closure is meant to reduce entanglement risk to the ...

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

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

The change in temperature drove whales, many of them threatened or endangered humpbacks, to seek out food sources closer to ...

"This is a way to get our industry back," he said. 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 ...

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 ...