It’s not over ‘til it’s over. That phrase is highly applicable to fishing because anglers understand that until a fish in landed and secured, anything can happen—no matter how sure you are that ...

Despite the delay of commercial Dungeness crab season, and the temporary prohibition against using ”long soak” rigid crab pots, plenty of Monterey Bay residents enjoyed their traditional Thanksgiving ...

Question: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net people use for ...

Baited and unbaited hoop-nets commonly are used to capture catfish in lotic and lentic systems. Turtle bycatch and post-capture mortality has been problematic during catfish surveys in Missouri, USA, ...

The bright sunshine offered little relief as a crew from the Genoa National Fish Hatchery and I headed out on the Mississippi River last week in a 22-foot flat-bottomed workboat. The cold north wind ...

The bright sunshine offered little relief as a crew from the Genoa National Fish Hatchery and I headed out on the Mississippi River last week in a 22-foot flat-bottomed workboat. The cold north wind ...

Marine environmental scientist Travis Buck holds a California spiny lobster caught in a traditional hoop net. Nets can’t be taken to a location while free or scuba diving. Divers can catch lobster by ...