Since 2002, volunteers and TPWD staff have removed nearly 45,000 abandoned crab traps from Texas bays, saving an estimated ...

Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

It’s almost that time of year again for volunteers to help Texas Parks and Wildlife with a crucial conservation task: scouring the Texas coast for abandoned crab traps, which when left unchecked, can ...

Texas crabbers have until Thursday to remove traps before cleanup begins. Texas Parks and Wildlife says the effort helps stop deadly “ghost fishing.” ...

The goal is to cut down on "ghost fishing." ...

The Chambers County Sheriff's Marine Unit clears abandoned crab traps from Galveston Bay, improving safety and protecting wildlife in a vital community effort.

Find out how an annual cleanup of lost and abandoned crab traps in our coastal bays and waterways helps save crabs and other sea life. And see how a man-made wetland near Dallas cleans water while ...

Capt. Sally Black of Fishing Baffin Bay has agreed to become a regular contributor to this column. Her late husband was Capt. Aubrey Black, a Baffin legend, and Sally has ...

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 ...

The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, a nonprofit sealife rescue group, is asking the public to keep an eye out for a dolphin entangled by a crab trap that they are trying to find and rescue.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other fish in coastal waters from Maine ...