Crabbers in Southeast Alaska could soon be able to harvest red king crabs after the Alaska Board of Fisheries approved a ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut ...

For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering ... eating will be caught with destructive fishing gear," said Kenny Belov, who owns ...

In the last decade, there was just one commercial red king crab fishery in Southeast Alaska. But that could change with a ...

The Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch brings the real-life perils of Alaska crab fishing right into your living room. Each week, cameras on board the Cornelia Marie, Northwestern, Time Bandit ...

Before heading up to Alaska, the ship loads up with three ... Commercial fishing differs based on what you are fishing. When crabbing, fishermen drop cages, called crab pots, in areas that are ...

This season, the Bering Sea snow crab fishery opened for the first time in two years ... Bracing for the possibility of no ...

I wrote a Country Chef column from the city of Kodiak, on Kodiak Island — about 400 miles from the Alaska mainland. I ...

New genetic research on the Alaska red king crab reveals previously undiscovered diversity among different regions, suggesting the species is more resilient to climate change and changing ocean ...

Still, that doesn’t necessarily mean the Alaska red king crab can handle major environmental changes such as climate change, habitat loss and modern threats from new fishing technologies.

Historically, the red king crab fishery was Alaska's top shellfish fishery ... from fisheries-dependent data (collected on commercial fishing vessels) or independent surveys (from scientific ...