Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Approximately 11,000 crab pots are lost in Puget Sound every year. Most of the loss comes from recreational use and user errors.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, hands a tub of native hairy shore crab to crab team volunteer Brian Gregory, right, as the ...

An invasive European green crab has been found for the first time in Hood Canal, the farthest southerly intrusion into the Salish Sea for this damaging species, which poses a threat to native ...

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced seasonal crab and shrimp openings. Recreational crab fishing begins today, July 2, in Hood Canal north of Aycock Point, and on July 12 in Marine ...

KITSAP COUNTY, Wash — Volunteers captured a male European green crab near Seabeck in Kitsap County, marking the first time the invasive species has been found in the Hood Canal, the Washington ...

European green crabs continue to creep inward in the Salish Sea as local resource managers remain on the lookout. Staff with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that four green crabs ...

SEABECK — The scurrying crab, caught in a metal trap at Nick's Lagoon, alarmed Victoria Poage, a retired fisheries biologist, and Brian Gregory, an Army veteran and former Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ...

Approximately 11,000 crab pots are lost in Puget Sound every year. Most of the loss comes from recreational use and user errors. As the derelict pots still capture crabs after being abandoned in the ...

A European green crab was captured in Hood Canal on Tuesday, the farthest south the invasive species has been found in the Salish Sea. Volunteers with Washington Sea Grant, tasked by the state with ...

SEATTLE (AP) — An invasive European green crab was captured this week in Hood Canal, the farthest south the species has been found in the Salish Sea. Volunteers with Washington Sea Grant trapped the ...