SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The first catch is in. Commercial Dungeness crab season officially started Sunday in Northern California. Crab fishermen were happy to be back at work, and the public was hungry ...

Alaska’s commercial Bering Sea snow crab fishery kicked off its second season of the year with doubled catch limits – a ...

San Francisco — San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, known to many as a tourist attraction, harbors a small fleet of fishing boats that might otherwise be catching crabs this time of year. However, ...

This Saturday marks the opening of recreational Dungeness crab fishing for the 2025-2026 season in our area.

This was the third year of California-sponsored trials for the equipment used to catch Dungeness crabs while avoiding whale entanglements. Ropeless fishing gear is proving effective at avoiding whale ...

You know it’ll be a good Christmas for seafood lovers (and people who earn their living catching those hauls) when Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crabbing season opens in December. On Dec. 16, the ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- Commercial crab fishermen have faced challenges in recent years. A toxin called demoic acid and a large pool of ocean water, dubbed "the Blob," caused delays in opening ...

The U.S. state of Alaska has canceled the forthcoming 2026 Kodiak commercial tanner crab season to let the population recover ...

The bairdi crab and king crab are two distinct crab varieties. Bairdi is a snow crab variety known as a queen crab. Opilio ...

Beaufort native Brett Everett races across the glassy surface of the Morgan River in a 22-foot boat on a muggy 71-degree morning, using the Lowcountry waterway to drive deep into the salt marshes. But ...

However, migrating endangered humpback whales are now swimming in the same waters outside the Golden Gate strait where crabs are, and long lines of rope that fishermen traditionally use to pull up ...