The last day of the Puget Sound summer recreational crab season for most areas has passed and summer Puget Sound Dungeness ...

The recreational crab fishing season in Marine Area 10 (Seattle/Bremerton) will reopen for the month of December, joining the rest of Puget Sound already open to late-season crabbing. Rich Childers, ...

SEATTLE — Researchers are waging a quiet battle in the Pacific Northwest to protect one of the region’s most iconic species — the Dungeness crab. Using light traps, scientists at the MaST Center ...

Jude Apple, the research coordinator at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, slowly sinks into the mudflats while walking through the bay's massive eelgrass meadow on June 13. Eelgrass has ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) - Over 12,000 crab pots are lost in Washington state's Puget Sound every year, costing an estimated $700,000 in lost harvest revenue, and more poignantly, damaging the sea ...

The acute losses of one of the most relied-upon species in Puget Sound must be reversed through research and restoration.