The answer to relieving seafood market sticker shock is crab traps. The last time I stood at a seafood counter, Dungeness crab was $25 per pound and a dozen blue crabs cost over $50. Meanwhile these ...

Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A team of rescuers helped free a dolphin after it was entangled in crab trap lines in Brevard County. Boaters noticed a bottle-nosed dolphin’s tail caught in the ropes near the ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – On January 5 the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began its ten-day-long blue crab trap closure. This closure gives groups, authorized by the FWC, time to ...

Hundreds of traps are abandoned each year, leaving an ecological terror on the seafloor. Volunteers pulled a whopping 8,384 pounds of abandoned crab traps from the ...

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters of the St. Johns River system must be removed from the water before Jan. 16, the first day of a 10-day trap closure, the FWC said in a news ...