Canadian Dungeness crab prices are skyrocketing, as B.C. fishermen try to meet growing demand for the luxury crustacean in China. The crab variety has become hugely popular in high-end Shanghai ...

North Coast crab fishermen are pulling $100,000 worth of support for important Dungeness crab surveys, following a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada to close the Area A ...

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A new report finds that Dungeness crab shells are dissolving as a result of ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of climate change. According to experts, this could have a devastating ...

By this time in July, most commercial fishers have called it a year for Dungeness crab. But not Dave Bailey, the skipper of the 14-metre Morningstar II.

A B.C. harvested Dungeness crab in a research aquarium at the University of Toronto is part of an experiment to understand how ocean acidification could be causing crabs to lose their sense of smell.

Paul McElhany, a research ecologist with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, pilots a boat to retrieve Dungeness crab larvae from light-catching traps set out the day before in the marine ...

Commercial crab fishing will remain on hold in fishing zones south of the Sonoma-Mendocino county border “until at least the next risk assessment due to elevated numbers of humpback whales resulting ...