Explore Dungeness crab fishing in Monterey Bay, Northern California, while staying within the legal limits! This video shows the best techniques, tips, and local regulations to help you enjoy a ...

As part of its ongoing plan to prevent the entanglements, last year, the state of Oregon mandated that commercial crabbing operations reduce the number of pots they deploy and stick to shallower ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted to deny a petition to implement a sweeping new set of rules around the deployment of gear used in Dungeness crab fishing. Conservationists are ...

Catching these Dungeness crabs was fun from the dock, but the even more fun part was cooking them! Sorry Karl, Better luck next time, I was a hungry boy.

In Northern California, the tradition of winter crab feeds, which started after the Gold Rush, endures in crustaceans feasts ...

Cameron Selck flips over a crab that had landed upside down in a crate at Half Moon Bay’s Pillar Point Harbor. Keeping the crabs upright is important to keep them alive and fresh. Photo by Anna ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider a petition that imposes new rules on commercial crabbing to prevent whale entanglement at a meeting Feb. 20 in Springfield. The petition was ...

The ODFW Commission voted 6-1 on Feb. 20 to deny the petition that requested crab fishery rules be modified to reduce the risk of whale entanglement ...

Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishing community came out in force Friday against proposed rule changes aimed at protecting humpback whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear. The rules, proposed in a ...

In 2025, four humpback whales were entangled in crabbing gear. One, a juvenile, washed up in Yachats before it was euthanized. Entanglements like these are often tied to the Dungeness crab fishery.