With the regulated catch quotas of contemporary fisheries, design versatility for a fishing boat can be important. A new 19.8 x 7.3-m (65 x 24-ft.) combination crab trap and groundfish trawler ...

UPDATE: Fisherman rescued after crab traps get entangled in boat engine by: Summer Poole, Kathryn Bruch. Posted: Sep 20, 2024 / 11:16 AM CDT. Updated: Sep 20, 2024 / 03:16 PM CDT.

The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say this won't ...

The two boats arrived back at the dock at 7:15 p.m., he said. The pump failure not only affected the fuel line, but the pump that brought fresh water to the catch. "They potentially could have ...

These boats are powered by combustion engines, right? They have exhaust, and the exhaust port evidently is something that water could get in, and then get into the engine room. Which would cause a ...

By 18, Mark was a crewman — and made crab boat captain by the age of 21. ... the Pinnacle’s engineer responsible for maintaining deck equipment and two 1,000-horsepower engines, ...

The rest of his recollection is a jumble, flashes of thrashing waves, choking engine smoke, grabbing a life raft, his only instinct to survive. Survivor describes sinking of crab boat; 3 still sought ...

At the Trident Seafood crab processing plant, the diesel engines of commercial crab boats would be gurgling, and lifts would be running nonstop, ...

A crab boat caught fire Wednesday morning at Bodega Bay just after pulling into port to unload its catch. The Bodega Bay Fire Department said the engine fire at Spud Point Marina was put out ...

A greenhorn photo-documents the lives of crabbers on Alaska's remote Saint Paul Island during a winter week on a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea. It took just 20 minutes for my stomach to flip.