Sea creature lost a limb after getting snared in crab trap in Florida. See the release
“Sea turtles’ bodies can quickly heal from the severity of a missing limb — recovery needs to be fast after the trauma of ...
Environmental groups petition for Virginia crab pot regulations to ease threats to turtles
A petition filed by environmental groups is asking state regulators for regulations on crab pots to lessen their deadly ...
The New York Times22d
Invasive Crabs Have Taken Over New England. One Solution? Eat Them.
The process was simple. We harvested crabs in baited wire-mesh traps in an estuary in southern Rhode Island. Every so often we’d transfer bushels into coolers of tap water, where we expected ...
Center for Biological Diversity10d
Virginia Petition Seeks to Protect Diamondback Terrapins From Drowning in Crab Traps
Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that would ...
Palo Alto Weekly6d
The $50 million question: Can California’s Dungeness crab fishery coexist with whale conservation efforts?
In total, he has set out 250 crab traps. Every buoy is attached to a thin rope that stretches 200 feet down to a cylindrical, metal-and-wire pot on the ocean floor. Day spent the previous month ...