Massachusetts moves to protect horseshoe crabs during spawning
BOSTON (AP) — Wildlife protection advocates are welcoming a decision by the Massachusetts Marine Fis...
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Fire at Washington seafood facility destroys hundreds of crab pots before season opener
ILWACO, Wash. (AP) — A fire at a port building along the coast in Washington state destroyed more th...
Harvest of horseshoe crabs, used for medicine and bait, to be limited to protect rare bird
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Interstate fishing regulators are limiting the harvest of a primordial specie...
Alaska fishermen will be allowed to harvest lucrative red king crab in the Bering Sea
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab, the largest and mos...
Alaskan fishers fear another bleak season as crab populations dwindle in warming waters
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father’s crab boat, the Silver Spray,...
Harvest of horseshoe crabs, needed for blue blood, stopped during spawning season in national refuge
The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a nationa...
Oregon extends crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in trap ropes
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has extended rules restricting the state’s lucrative Dungeness crab fisher...
Oregon crabbers and environmentalists are at odds as a commission votes on rules to protect whales
In the wheelhouse of a crab boat named Heidi Sue, Mike Pettis watched the gray whale surface and sho...
Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast an...