“Sea turtles’ bodies can quickly heal from the severity of a missing limb — recovery needs to be fast after the trauma of ...

Since 2001, volunteers and TPWD staff have scooped up almost 44,000 derelict traps, saving an estimated 720,000 blue crabs. The Texas legislature authorized TPWD to create the Annual Crab Trap ...

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 ...

When these trapped crabs die, they release a pheromone signal to other crabs that there may be a shell available, which lures even more crabs into a death trap.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— A new rule aimed at protecting diamondback terrapin turtles from drowning in recreational blue crab traps will go into effect Wednesday, March 1. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that would ...