Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population triggered two consecuctive years of closure, starting in 2022.

Snow crab stocks in Alaska’s Bering Sea, which crashed a few years ago, have recovered enough to allow a modest harvest starting in mid-October. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Monday ...

ALASKA, USA — Officials in Alaska announced Friday that a limited snow crabbing season in the Bering Sea will be allowed this year. The announcement comes after the crabbing season was canceled two ...

ALASKA, USA — Crabbers are back in the Bering Sea Tuesday for the first day of the crabbing season, many of whom are from Washington. This is the first time in three years they are allowed to catch ...

In March of 2020 a fishery disaster was declared for the 2019 Norton Sound Red King crab fishery and a year later for the 2019-2020 Bering Sea Tanner crab fishery. Roughly four years later, affected ...

What happened to the Time Bandit? Explore the vessel’s retirements, comebacks, and ongoing crab-fishing adventures under the ...

Tumultuous waves and horrendous weather can’t stop crab fishermen. They’re tough and determined. But tedious bickering and hours-long bargaining in Washington, D.C. can shut down an entire industry, ...

Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm water ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 triggered the first ever closure of the fishery in ...

After a two-year hiatus forced by low stocks, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is back on. The decision to reopen the harvest, announced on Oct. 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is based ...