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

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 ...

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

Alaska's snow crab fishing industry came to a standstill in 2022 after an alarming disappearance of the animals, and now scientists are increasingly confident that man-made climate change is to ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This season, the Bering Sea snow crab fishery opened for the first time in two years ... Bracing for the possibility of no more fishing in the future means diversifying the economy. The Pribilof ...

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

A pound of claws can cost two times the price of Alaskan snow crab ... Ernie Piton: There's a nice crab. Narrator: Ernie Piton Jr. has been commercially fishing for stone crabs for over 40 years.

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 ...