The work of conservation is often long and the results not immediately evident. The toil to restore a habitat or save a species can be measured in years, decades and generations. Often, the fruits of ...

Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

For the 21st year, Texas Parks and Wildlife will search for and remove abandoned crab traps. The department is seeking volunteers to search for and remove the abandoned crab traps which can kill sea ...

It’s almost that time of year again for volunteers to help Texas Parks and Wildlife with a crucial conservation task: scouring the Texas coast for abandoned crab traps, which when left unchecked, can ...

So much so that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will ban crabbing between Feb. 19 and 28 so volunteers can scoop up these old traps. This will happen in waters throughout the state, part of a ...

The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, a nonprofit sealife rescue group, is asking the public to keep an eye out for a dolphin entangled by a crab trap that they are trying to find and rescue.

Volunteers across Texas are heading to the water the take part in the annual Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program. The program, started by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 2002, calls on ...

The connection between artistic inspiration and the natural world comes to life in three unique profiles. Find out how an annual cleanup of lost and abandoned crab traps in our coastal bays and ...

Three folks who wrestled an abandoned crab trap from the muck of Corpus Christi Bay's East Flats last Saturday saw firsthand just how many marine organisms these "ghost-fishing" wire cages can claim.

While cruising the Texas coast this week during my Beachcombing survey, I came across one of the most entertaining — and ecologically important — residents of our shoreline: the fiddler crab. Easily ...

BALTIMORE (CBSNewsTexas.com) - If the wood stacked outside the front door doesn't tip you off, then the longhorns on the wall and the Shiner sign will seal it for you. You're in a Texas barbecue ...