Oysters famously filter their surrounding water, but it turns out they are removing more than algae and excess nutrients. New ...

Whale entanglements are becoming more common along the west coast of the United States, with NOAA Fisheries reporting as many as three dozen confirmed sightings in 2024.

California Fish and Wildlife has approved ropeless pop-up gear for spring Dungeness crab fishing, allowing licensed fishers statewide to apply to use the whale-safe technology from April 1 through ...

It's the coveted crab claw with the black tip, but once you know what happens when they're returned to the sea, you'll want ...

This trip started slow, with early mornings, calm water, and a lot of waiting. Crab traps baited with chicken failed completely, forcing a switch to stingray caught the night before. Even then, the ...

North Carolina's blue crab harvest dropped to a historic low of 9.5 million pounds in 2022. State officials are considering new restrictions, including harvest cutbacks, to help the declining crab ...

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

A video has revealed never-before-seen behaviors in wolves that could mark the first case of tool use in a wild member of the wolf and dog family — and it was all for some crab bait. When you purchase ...

When a wild wolf encounters a potential meal, its instinct is usually to pounce -- but researchers in western Canada have recorded at least one wolf taking a strikingly different approach. The ...

British Columbia sea wolves have been observed by researchers using their teeth to haul crab traps ashore where they would eat the bait intended for invasive green crabs. The discovery caught on ...

Wild wolves living in Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Territory on BC’s central coast have learned to pull crab traps out of the ocean—behaviour that represents the first documented case of potential tool use in ...

The coast of British Columbia is experiencing a crab problem. But trying to control the crab problem appears to have surfaced an unexpected wolf problem—one that reveals the surprising capacity of ...