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FILE - In this May 2, 2016, photo, Bobby Kent pushes a baited lobster pot into the waters of Long Island Sound off Groton, Conn. Only a handful of lobstermen still work the waters due to a dwindling ...

Days after the town’s building inspector closed off public access to Hull’s lobster trap tree, the organizer of the holiday display had hoped for a resolution. But access to the inside of the tree ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other fish in coastal waters from Maine to ...

Volunteers from Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community will remove derelict lobster traps from the sand along Santa Barbara’s coastline on Saturday, June 19.

Below is a Press Release from the Santa Barbara Channelkeeper regarding the cleanup of approximately thirty lobster traps from local beaches. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – On Saturday, April 19th, ...

GOLETA, Calif. – Nearly 50 volunteers came together on Saturday to remove more than 1,000 pounds of lobster traps from Black Rock Beach in Goleta as part of a clean-up event hosted by Santa Barbara ...

Two decades after Connecticut’s lobster industry collapsed, federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left on the floor of the ...