The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted to review potential regulations that would require bycatch reduction devices ...

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Sitting at the wheel of his workboat, the Miss Renee Two, he felt a “nudge” on the line he was towing astern and winched it in to discover he’d hooked a mucky but otherwise intact crab pot.

A common and costly problem in both the bay and the gulf are “ghost pots” — crab traps that get lost, derelict or abandoned to sit on the water bottom indefinitely.

Crab pots can ghost fish anywhere from a couple of months to up to seven years, Antonelis said. Other types of fishing gear can ghost fish for longer.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) — Over 12,000 crab pots are lost in Washington state's Puget Sound every year, costing an estimated $700,000 in lost harvest revenue, and more poignantly, damaging the ...

Two French bulldogs who were missing for more than a month in Alaska have been found dead inside a pair of crab pots -- with their owners believing they were abducted and killed in a sick ...

Mar. 19—Starting May 1, a reduced pot limit and 14-day landing requirement will be in effect for the Washington coastal Dungeness crab fishery. The intent of these requirements is to reduce the ...

Boats stacked with empty crab pots sit in Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Fishermen should have been setting their gear on Sunday morning for the opening of Kodiak’s biggest ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) — Over 12,000 crab pots are lost in Washington state’s Puget Sound every year, costing an estimated $700,000 in lost harvest revenue, and more poignantly, damaging ...