Every summer, something ancient and mysterious swims up from the dark and into Puget Sound dive logs. Bluntnose sixgill ...

In honor of Critter of the Month's tenth birthday, let's explore the world of one of Puget Sound's most graceful ten-legged ...

Though invasive crabs are a concern to ecosystems across Puget Sound, Padilla Bay must protect something extra special: 8,000 acres of eelgrass.

Dungeness crabs are the second most valuable invertebrate fishery on the West Coast of Canada and an important food source ...

Puget Sound Restoration Fund works collaboratively to restore marine habitat, water quality, and native species in Puget Sound through in-water projects. We are committed to a vision of a clean ...

SEATTLE — Researchers are waging a quiet battle in the Pacific Northwest to protect one of the region’s most iconic species — the Dungeness crab. Using light traps, scientists at the MaST ...

According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, tribal and recreational crabbing plummeted in South Puget Sound in the last 15 years, dropping from 214,404 pounds harvested in 2012 to ...

As long as 20 years ago, Miya’s Sushi offered European green crabs and Asian shore crabs on its menus, as well as silver carp, lionfish, mugwort, Japanese knotweed and other nonnative species ...

Overfishing has left the species critically endangered. The scientists' soupfin sighting brought the number of known shark species in Puget Sound to 11, according to reporting from KUOW.

No one realized the two species were in Washington state's Puget Sound until 2021 when a local fisherman posted a picture of a shark he'd pulled out of the water near the tiny town of Shelton ...

Last year and in 2022, the scientists caught nine sevengills in South Puget Sound, near Olympia, Schulte said. Eight of them were male, measuring under 7 feet and the female was about 4 1/2 feet long.

Not only is finding a new species in Puget Sound notable, Personius said but it’s also a reason to figure out why they might be in the area. One reason could be rising marine temperatures, he said.