During this year’s annual Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program, participants from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Coastal Fisheries Division, Texas Game Wardens, volunteers and partner ...

The traps are scattered from Bonita Springs north to Tampa Bay, and some fishermen have reported losing thousands to barges associated with beach rebuilding projects.

No one has a solid estimate of how many abandoned and lost crab traps litter Texas bays. But anyone spending time on the bays knows the number is staggering, and their impact on boaters, crabbers and ...

Reaching out of the boat with a long metal hook, marine biologist Parker White snagged the slimy buoy bobbing off the southeastern coast of Lake Maurepas on a recent windy, gray morning. As fellow ...