Watch as a giant net-trap successfully captures a tough and heavily armored spiny catfish in a dramatic underwater encounter.

According to NOAA officials, a humpback whale became entangled in crab traps in October. Rescue efforts led by the Large Whale Entanglement Response Network—a coalition of scientific and nonprofit ...

I don’t remember the exact year, but I purchased the fishing rod sometime around the turn of the century – that would be the ...

Like or not, technology is here to stay. Advancements continue to surface on fronts of all sorts at rapid rates. Just when ...

Spring means crabbing in waterways throughout New Jersey. Blue claw crabs are abundant in the state’s waters, and they are a favorite of recreational crabbers in New Jersey, according to the New ...

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

The adult gray whale, entangled in a gillnet that got caught on a rock crab trap, was “anchored in place” on the sea floor, ...

But the fish was way too big for our small landing net that’s usually good for anything we catch.” The big tiger dwarfed the other two trout they caught that morning. Photo courtesy Robert ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, represented by the Marine Protection Department, removed fishing nets stuck on a buoy to protect the marine environment and species ...

It is also illegal to set or fish a trotline, collapsible trap or crab net ring within 100 feet of someone else’s set gear. It is illegal to fish with crab gear that belongs to another person, to ...

Thyborøn, a fishing village of some 2,000 people in Jutland, just happened to have 450 tons of those nets sitting unused at the harbor. These were trawling nets, made of nylon fibers up to four ...

Trawlers are large boats that use a wide, cone-shaped net to catch fish. The Malindi- Ungwana Bay prawn fishery Management plan that was gazetted in 2010 is defined as a fishing season from April ...