Despite the delay of commercial Dungeness crab season, and the temporary prohibition against using ”long soak” rigid crab pots, plenty of Monterey Bay residents enjoyed their traditional Thanksgiving ...

If you want to go lobster hoop netting, you only have until Wednesday to do so before the season closes. Captain Dave Dodge reported that the lobster hoop netting inside Long Beach Harbor has been ...

Question: Is it legal to use hoop nets to catch crab off piers in California this time of the year? I thought I read crab season runs through June. However, the hoop net is a net people use for ...

The Gail Force starts lobster hoop-netting trips this weekend out of Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach. Captain Ryan Gengler says he is a go for today, Saturday and Sunday evening no matter how many ...

Farley Eaglespeaker (center) reels in a traditional hoop net while fishing for salmon on the Columbia River in Skamania County, Washington on June 23, 2024. (Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle) This ...

An experiment earlier this summer using hoop nets instead of trap nets to sample channel catfish along the U.S. portion of the Red River yielded results that exceeded even the most optimistic ...