Officials explained that the whale entanglements off the West Coast reached a six-year high in 2024. There are confirmed reports of a humpback whale currently entangled in multiple sets of Dungeness ...

The Bay Area’s Dungeness crab season is facing yet another ... Two kayakers had a close encounter with a shark in Half Moon Bay. A dead humpback whale washed ashore at Cowell Ranch State Beach ...

Vertical lines will be allowed to continue in other parts of Northern California, including Zones 1-3 in Half Moon Bay ... season had first opened on Jan. 5. Officials explained that the whale ...

One bad crab season ... the whale entanglements have impacted the Coastside more broadly, even beyond the docks. A crabbing boat enters Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 10.

All of California was swept up in Humphrey fever when the wayward humpback whale found himself stuck twice in the Bay Area.

California has run a pilot program since 2023 to try out so-called pop-up gear to find a solution to crabbers' woes.

Cape Cod Bay is teeming with new activity as North Atlantic right whale calves make their ... The current calving season's 10 calves is half the number of newborns seen last year.

His troubles began on Oct. 10, 1985: That day, a 40-foot-long adult humpback whale was spotted in the San Francisco Bay near Oakland ... Humphrey swam laps in the half-mile-long channel ...

The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year. It comes less than two weeks after four whales washed up in the San Francisco Bay in a week-and-a-half span ...