Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

Local seafood plays a role in many things besides recipes in Louisiana, and those relationships explain some of the deep dread we're feeling as the BP oil disaster imperils it. Seafood is entwined ...

Reaching out of the boat with a long metal hook, marine biologist Parker White snagged the slimy buoy bobbing off the southeastern coast of Lake Maurepas on a recent windy, gray morning. As fellow ...

Stone crab season opens Friday and the nearshore Gulf will be loaded with long trap lines from the beach on out to 10 miles or so. Crabbers actually set their traps 10 days ago and will begin tending ...

ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN - Dungeness crab fishermen for the first time this season hauled in pot after pot of writhing crustaceans here in a rush to fill up boats and get the valuable catch to shore ...

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters of the St. Johns River system must be removed from the water before Jan. 16, the first day of a 10-day trap closure, the FWC said in a news ...

A female wild wolf on the central coast of British Columbia was caught on video pulling a crab trap out of the ocean and eating the bait, marking the first documented case of tool use by the animal.

Footage of a hungry wolf performing a complex sequence of behaviors on the coast of British Columbia could potentially mark the first case of tool use in wild canids. The wolf swam into deep water to ...