Commercial crabbing season in California opened this past weekend after a couple months delay. Diehard crab connoisseurs got their pick of the first catch on Sunday, right off of crabbing boats.

crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance has remained unchanged for about 200 million years. Females are about 60 centimeters long and weigh ...

SACRAMENTO— The California Department of Fish and Wildlife today announced a delay of the Nov. 15 opening of commercial Dungeness crab season to reduce the risk of whale entanglements. This ...

Now, biologists have identified a new, furry ally in the fight against European green crabs: sea otters. At the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in California, hungry southern ...

California’s Dungeness crab season is set to begin Jan. 5 south of the Sonoma-Mendocino county line. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that the commercial Dungeness crab ...