Commercial fishing for Dungeness crab, usually a centerpiece of Christmas dinners in Northern California, will open Jan. 5 in central California waters, the state Department of Fish ...

Winter has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. With today’s winter solstice, the days will start to get a little bit longer, but the cold will stick around. We humans typically handle the ...

CDFW is also lifting the temporary recreational crab trap restriction beginning Jan. 2, 2026, at 8:01 a.m., between the California/Oregon border and Cape Mendocino (40°10’ N. latitude) and between the ...

The region’s commercial Dungeness crab season can begin Jan. 5, state officials announced Friday, now that many of the ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will open the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in the Central Management Area (Sonoma/Mendocino County line (38°46.125’ N. latitude) to Point ...

The recreational crabbing season has opened in southern Humboldt County, after a delay surrounding elevated levels of domoic ...

Alabama Jack’s isn’t just off the beaten path—it’s proudly, defiantly standing its ground as a monument to Old Florida. Nestled at the gateway to the Florida Keys on Card Sound Road, this legendary ...

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

Prince Rupert, B.C., residents are celebrating the holidays this year with coastal flair. Instead of decking the halls, they’re stacking crab traps to create a tree on the docks of Rushbrook Marina. A ...

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

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.