ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Seattle skipper and his crew have been charged with illegally fishing for crab with pots that belonged to the Big Valley, a crab boat that sank the day the fishery was to begin.

Rescuers searched the icy waters of the Bering Sea yesterday for a crewman of a Seattle-based fishing vessel who was swept overboard a day earlier. But hopes faded last night for crewman Manu Lagai, ...

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon has extended rules restricting the state’s lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps, the ...

Three fishermen are facing federal charges after being accused of illegally transporting more than 7,000 pounds of crab harvested in Southeast Alaska to Seattle in hopes of getting better prices there ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced Wednesday Puget Sound summer crab-fishing seasons will get underway July 1 in many marine areas. Lower Columbia River from Rocky ...

EVERETT, Wash. — The Puget Sound is basically the crab fishing capital of the recreational world! It's where weekend warriors and seasoned anglers alike come to fill their buckets with Dungeness crabs ...