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 ...

The total allowable catch for Tanner crab in the western Bering Sea was set at 1.3 million pounds, while the eastern Bering Sea fishery was capped at 760,000 pounds. The fishery also opens Oct. 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It didn’t have to be this way,” Jamie Goen, executive director of the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers, said in a statement “The crab will eventually bounce back and could do so sooner if the ...

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, ...

A Bering Sea survey by federal scientists contains more bad news for Alaska, Washington and Oregon-based crabbers hoping for an upturn in upcoming harvests that last year fell to rock-bottom levels.

Seattle-based Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers estimate the partial government shutdown will begin costing them $80,000 per day when the Red King Crab season opens today. Close. MyNorthwest.

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 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.