It was just after 11 p.m. Thursday night, and we’d already been hoop-netting for lobsters for over three hours. We had eaten our tasty, greasy boat cheeseburger from the Alicia’s galley. Now we were ...

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 ...

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