Rockfish anglers have moved to the nearshore area now we’ve passed into November. The deep reefs past 300 feet are now closed ...

Dolphins in Australia have learned how to snatch bait from crab traps—and now ... taking the fish they use as bait from their crab pots and nets. The interactions began occurring in Koombana ...

Baited blue crab pots are known to trap and drown terrapins, while fleets of traps are capable of steadily removing individual turtles until a population cannot sustain itself. Abandoned or lost traps ...

Sometimes, those nets and crab pots get lost or abandoned at sea ... "Ghost fishing" happens when the ghost gear continues to trap seafood and marine life, but there's no fisherman to pull ...

Strategically located crab pots on the muddy creek bottoms, stuffed with smelly bait fish, trap the 6-legged crabs who also have rear swimming legs that look like paddles. The crabs, which walk ...

The millions of lines tied to the pots and traps used by lobster and crab fisheries in the western North Atlantic region continue to pose a considerable entanglement risk to the critically endangered ...

A fisherman loads crab pots onto a fishing vessel ... year to prevent humpback whales from getting entangled in trap and buoy lines, according to the California Fish and Wildlife.