The gear lets fishermen use a remote-operated, acoustic release device to pop-up a crab pot from the ocean floor rather than have it tethered to a floating buoy. Pots can be strung together with ...

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 ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

Crab fisherman Ben Platt said he was a vocal opponent but will join this year’s pilot since multiple pots now can be strung together, making the method simpler and cheaper.