With sturdy stainless steel components and a rubber covered bottom, the SMI Heavy Duty Crab Trap is the best crab trap for Dungeness crab. Three entry doors with elevated ramps make it easy for crabs ...

LEWES, Del. (AP) — Researchers announced Wednesday that a new bait alternative may help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested to be used as bait. Female horseshoe crabs are considered ...

But mortality rates can range from 10% to 30%, and more and more crabs are being used for this purpose. The other big use for horseshoe crabs is as bait, mainly for fishermen who trap eels and whelks.

Horseshoe crab ancestors first appeared in the fossil record 450 million years ago. But climate change and harvesting are ...

Initially, I intended catching eels with it but instead it caught fish, crayfish and even a fresh water crab. These were then released back into the wild.

Maybe I don’t get out enough, but it was just last week that I came upon a woman casting a crab trap into the river with rod-and-reel. Yep, casting. Quite appropriately, they’re known as ...

But mortality rates can range from 10% to 30%, and more and more crabs are being used for this purpose. The other big use for horseshoe crabs is as bait, mainly for fishermen who trap eels and whelks.