In a significant enforcement action, a commercial fishing vessel operating out of Westport, Washington, has been apprehended ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

Due to the dangers presented to humpback whales, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will end ...

In an effort to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear, state officials on Thursday announced that commercial Dungeness crab fishing would be closed later this month along the ...

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife police officer Lanny McOmber recently investigated a tip about a commercial ...

This is one of the worst violations of this kind we have seen in many years’ – Dan Chadwick, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

In today's newscast, the Central Coast Dungeness crab season is coming to an early end this year. Plus, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors could take a position on two statewide battery energy ...

“Unfortunately, it has been six years we've been delayed or closed early for whales,” said Brand Little, a San Francisco Dungeness crab fisherman who is among those participating in the pilot ...

California's Dungeness crab season is starting to end in Monterey Bay. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said it will close commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries in ...

State regulators in Washington have approved a new line marking rule for traps used in the state’s Dungeness crab fishery in ...

The state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says it will reevaluate the move later this month, depending on the risk fishing lines pose to the whales.