After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on t ...

Alaska's burgeoning mariculture industry is giving an industry update on the final day at ComFish. Kodiak Island's villages ...

NOAA’s Alaska Science and Research Director said the agency will continue its mission to provide the science behind ...

Hunters, anglers, and a bloc of 20 tribes in western Washington are among those pleased with three nominees Gov. Bob Ferguson announced this week for the state’s Fish and Wildlife ...

Not only because of the magnitude of the injury, but also the coincidences surrounding the injury and the consequences that ...

Fisheries scientists who were fired by the Trump administration say they've been living in limbo as their work is sidelined.

Jacob Riley Veeser was a crew member on board the fishing vessel Lady Alaska, which was featured in the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch ...

A typically crab grows to about 8 inches across the carapace. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via Bay City News) In an effort to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in fishing ...

The commercial fishery will close in Fishing Zones 4, 5 and 6 (Pigeon Point, 37°11′ N. latitude, San Mateo County, to the U.S./Mexico border), at which time the commercial take and possession of ...

Unalaska is part of a 1,100-mile volcanic arc known as the Aleutian Islands, which stretch from the Alaska Peninsula across the Bering Sea ... is best known for fishing. Dutch Harbor is the ...

California officials are limiting commercial Dungeness crab fishing along the coast — including off Sonoma County — to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear.

A humpback whale dives into the water off the coast of Monterey, California. (Shayan Sanyal, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr) MONTEREY, Calif. (CN) — Commercial crabbing along half of the California coast will ...