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

Starting May 1, a reduced pot limit and 14-day landing requirement will be in effect for the Washington coastal Dungeness crab fishery. The intent of these requirements is to reduce the risk of ...

The effort comes after reports of whale entanglements off the Pacific Coast spiked a decade ago during a marine heat wave ... that had been strung between crab pots on the ocean floor and buoys ...