Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community and Tidy Seas worked together on April 20 to remove more than 50 lobster traps that had washed ...

“We are delighted to be working alongside current and former members of the lobster fishery to accomplish this important work,” said Sarah Crosby, director of conservation and policy at the aquarium. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bridgeport captain Corey Matias pulls an abandoned lobster trap onto the side of his boat during a recent recovery trip in Long ...

Willis Spear stands in the backyard of his Yarmouth, Maine home. Behind him are dozens of yellow and green lobster traps. Spear, 67, spends most of the winter preparing these traps to be deployed in ...

As is always the case in winter, North Shore fisherman Scott D’Amico had dozens of lobster traps lying around come November. But as also has become tradition for him, the 35-year-old decided to put ...