UPDATE (3 p.m.): News 5 is learning more information about a boat rescue in Mobile Bay Friday morning. According to officials, Mobile Fire-Rescue and the Coast Guard were called to the boat located in ...

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 ...

A trial of innovative crab fishing gear designed to reduce whale entanglements is being hailed as a resounding success that should advance widespread use of the new technology off the California coast ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Test results are in on a technology that could help keep a popular Bay Area seafood on the table. They're specially designed traps to fish for Dungeness crab, without ...

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.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Bay Area crab fishermen are hoping new test results will help them recover their spring season. The crab season this year was cut short to protect migrating whales. The tests ...

The sun shimmered over calm waters as a small Florida International University research vessel zigzagged slowly across Biscayne Bay on a hot and humid Saturday morning. Aboard the boat, a team from ...