The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced the long-anticipated reopening of the commercial fishery from ...

The spider crab is one of those very species, making it seem like the only way to bring these crustaceans back up to land is ...

Historically, the northern fishery has had very little commercial fishing effort for rock crab. In the five years prior to ...

California state regulators have decided to open the Northern California commercial rock crab fishery for the first time in a ...

oval carapaces blend in with the rocks on the ocean floor. Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have ...

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