David McCandless, the Ifca's chief executive said inshore fisheries and conservation areas around the country had seen a ...

Zoea larvae don’t resemble their blue crab parents, but rather a tiny, curled crawfish. From the minute they are brought into this world, the crabs are at the mercy of the wind and currents.

Dungeness crabs are the second most valuable invertebrate fishery on the West Coast of Canada and an important food source ...

BLYN — The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound’s Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and ...

Thousands of the crabs have already been trapped in southern Southeast Alaska, and experts advise the public to be on the ...

Huge pulses of green crab larvae are spread during strong El Niño conditions, when warmer surface waters dominate the North Pacific, McDonald said. ...

There are already signs that Alaska’s snow crab range is shifting north – as expected by NOAA Fisheries scientists – which means ocean currents carry the larvae even farther north, he said.

To capture crab larvae, a light trap is deployed from docks in Washington and British Columbia. Each trap consists of a transparent bucket with an LED light strip that activates at night.

Green-crab larvae do. Aided by these skills, green crabs have established themselves in the Pacific Northwest, Japan, South Africa, South America and Australia.

ABOARD THE NICOLE C, Salish Sea – Dom Wilbur slammed the knife into the frozen squid, sending shattered ice flying. Nearby stacks of crab pots teetered as his dad throttled the boat past the ...