Some ocean buoys are used to mark channels in busy ship crossings. Others float on the water to mark the location of a crab trap or oyster bed. But off the coast of western Australia, one buoy has ...

In total, he has set out 250 crab traps. Every buoy is attached to a thin rope that stretches 200 feet down to a cylindrical, metal-and-wire pot on the ocean floor. Day spent the previous month ...

The fishery uses wire-mesh pots to catch crabs. These traps rest on the ocean floor with a line of rope leading up to a buoy on the surface. When whales get caught up in the rope, they twist and turn ...

The state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says it will reevaluate the move later this month, depending on the risk fishing ...

It is unlawful to leave Dungeness crab pots deployed in waters of the Pacific Ocean, Grays Harbor ... making a Dungeness crab landing. Summer buoy tags In conjunction with the reduced pot limit ...