A few years ago, I tagged along with a commercial fisher and fishing guide in Bradenton, Florida. While he pulled up traps ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— A new rule aimed at protecting diamondback terrapin turtles from drowning in recreational blue crab traps will go into effect Wednesday, March 1. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Baited blue crab pots are known to trap and drown terrapins, while fleets of traps are capable of steadily removing individual turtles until a population cannot sustain itself. Abandoned or lost traps ...

The proposed regulations — formulated with feedback from the California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group — would protect blue and humpback whales and leatherback sea turtles from entanglement ...