Almost offhandedly, Tommy Pearson points across the ocean toward the horizon: “Look at all those birds, must be some dolphins coming.” Sure enough, a couple of minutes later we’re in the midst of a ...

The Chronicle Food staff informally tasted 11 varieties of shrimp, the number that we found in markets last week. The shopping process underscored the lesson that shrimp are wild, seasonal food, and ...

"I caught those prawns," fisherman Steve Johansen proudly tells a table of diners at in Vancouver, B.C. "Nice catch," responds one of the diners. This spring, she and many like her are feasting on ...

The spot shrimp season got off to a relatively good start in Puget Sound and Hood Canal, and state Fish and Wildlife is crunching numbers to see if anything is left in the tackle box for additional ...

Sweet like lobster. Soft orange color. About the size of your palm. And if you hold live spot prawns pulled from the waters off La Jolla Canyon in your hand, they wait until you drop your freak-out ...

In the center of your plate will be a spot prawn’s head and thorax, set up like a pillar. Its white-flecked legs will stretch and its sideways mouth will snap like a camera shutter. Surrounding this ...

They are huge, these Santa Barbara spot prawns. And they are coddled all the way to the table. They are caught in traps at depths up to 1,600 feet, carefully brought aboard small shrimp boats and kept ...

We hunted down the seafood restaurants with the most social media buzz, industry awards, and accolades to find the best of ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Monday that several Puget Sound marine areas will reopen for late-season spot shrimp fishing. But shrimpers will only have limited time. The ...

OLYMPIA — Spot shrimp season will open in parts of the Olympic Peninsula later this week. Marine Area 5 (western Strait of Juan de Fuca) will open to spot shrimp Thursday. Marine Area 6 (eastern ...