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The Lobster Trap Tree is back in Stonington for a fourth year. “It’s a way to create a joyous holiday exhibition to bring people to our community,” Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce's Lisa Konicki ...

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 ...

The skyline of Boston is still in view when Colin Greeley catches his first glimpse of water rising off the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean. A family of whales is about to breach the surface to take a ...

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 ...

The Stonington, Conn., Lobster Trap Tree is a glorious tower of steel, art, and light — a nod to the legacy of local fishermen in the home of Connecticut’s last commercial fishing fleet STONINGTON, ...

Twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara and Tidy Seas removed more than 50 lobster traps from the coastline, along with all the ...

A new study, however, finds that this same signal may lure young lobsters to their doom, causing them to try to congregate ...

The lifespan of a lobster trap is, like pretty much everything else in fishing, a matter mostly beyond one’s control. A sandy or muddy soft seafloor can buy a trap more than a decade of service. On ...