Bering Sea snow crab support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 has triggered the first-ever closure of the fishery. (Photo provided by National Oceanic and ...

Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers’ Goen said she’s hoping the fishery’s total closure will expedite the process of getting money to crabbers, and that the attention the snow crab collapse has ...

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.

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the second year in a row — and the second time ever — due to dwindling crab population levels.. When researchers with ...

Also on Monday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced a small Bering Sea crab harvest of more than 2 million pounds of Tanner crab will open Oct. 16. Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times ...

Snow crab are found off the coast of Alaska in the Bering, Beaufort and Chukchi seas. About 65 boats usually take part in the snow crab season in the Bering Sea.

ALASKA, USA — Two weeks after the snow crab season was canceled in Alaska's Bering Sea for the second year due to population concerns, scientists have released more details about what they think ...

Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and for the first time, ... Alaska’s Bering snow crab, king crab seasons canceled. Oct 12, 2022, ...

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the first time ever after scientists discovered an unprecedented decline in crab numbers. Climate change is the number one ...

The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in recent years.

The populations of the northern Canadian snow crab off Newfoundland used to swing up and down in sync with fluctuations in the Alaska snow crab. But when the warming hit the Bering Sea in 2018 and ...

The move is a double whammy to a fleet from Alaska, Washington and Oregon chasing Bering Sea crab in harvests that in 2016 grossed $280 million, The Seattle Times reported.