HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Dungeness crab season is on hold again. There are a lot fewer fishing boats at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay these days. The boats that are there are not getting much ...

Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Dungeness crab season has officially kicked ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced commercial Dungeness crab restrictions will be lifted on Jan. 5 in DFW Zones 1 and 2. Recreational anglers in those zones may use traditional ...

After a two-year hiatus forced by low stocks, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is back on. The decision to reopen the harvest, announced on Oct. 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is based ...

Fourteen vessels had landed about 680,000 pounds of Bristol Bay king crab as of Wednesday, Oct. 23. 2024. The average weight is 6.84 pounds, and the catch rate is 35 legal males per pot. Both of those ...

Conditions got a bit messy for anglers on the Monterey Bay in the middle part of this week. We had another early winter type storm move through that included some rain, high winds and big swells. A ...

The number of commercial fishing jobs in Alaska plunged to a new low last year as the industry struggles with disrupted ...

SANTA CRUZ — Due to the potential risk of whale and sea turtle entanglements with fishing gear, the Dungeness crab fishery season has been delayed repeatedly in 2022, a years-long trend of increased ...

Santa Cruz, CA − Three hundred anglers and 40 volunteers enjoyed a day with sunny weather and calm seas during the 19th Annual Sand Crab Classic Perch Tournament held out of the IDES Hall on March 9.