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Dungeness Crab

The 40-foot fishing vessel Das Bug navigates the Yaquina Bay bar. Yale Fogarty / Finer Image Photography ©

Three rescued, one missing after Oregon crabber capsized

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Trained responders use a grapple to grab an entanglement trailing behind a North Atlantic right whale in Northeast waters. Center for Coastal Studies photo/NOAA Permit # 24359.

Whale entanglement reports declined slightly in 2023, NMFS reports

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Noyo Net Works in Fort Bragg, Calif., helps keep boats as far away as Alaska fishing, offering everything from salmon gurdies to trawl nets, crab pots and more. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Gearing up at Noyo Net Works

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Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

CDFW closes Northern Dungeness fishery

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Sponsoned and lengthened from a 1973 Nichols Brothers boat, the Ingot, the Channa Sea has a number of interesting design features including a high wave wall, a tunnel under the pilothouse for setting longline pots, and the hydraulics and RSW located in the bow. Yale Fogarty photo.

Boat of the month: Channa Sea

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Dungeness crabs caught off California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo.

Whale entanglement spurs push for pop-up gear in crab fishery

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Serious threats to California's critically endangered species, including the Dungeness crab, red abalone, and Pacific herring, were highlighted in a new climate change study. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Climate threat casts a shadow over Calif. commercial fisheries

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A new line marking rule was approved for traps used in the state Dungeness crab fishery. Photo by Thunderbird Design Studio/ Shutterstock

Washington approves new line marking rule for Dungie fishery

Nathan Strout

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

500 undersized Dungeness crabs caught by Washington vessel

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The 70-foot Miss Tiffanie, a Delta Marine Industries boat built in 1982, is at anchor in Lituya Bay, Alaska. On its 2021 journey to western Alaska, the boat had to carry buoys outside the traps when transiting Canadian waters.

Boat of the month: Miss Tiffanie

Paul Molyneaux

Dungeness crabs caught off California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo.

Dungeness trap restrictions tighten as whales move in

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