For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering Sea after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs had mysteriously disappeared — ...

“The snow crab fishery has historically been the most productive crab fishery in the Bering Sea and supported one of the most valuable commercial fisheries in the Arctic,” Alaska Governor Mike ...

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 ...

Wildlife officials say the number of whale and sea turtle entanglements in crab or other fishing gear has risen in recent years, leading the season to be delayed until at least the first of the new ...

Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again, for the first time in nearly three years. The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Kodiak, Alaska, fisher has been sentenced to a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of Tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska ...

The stars of Deadliest Catch are risking their lives as they face uncertainty out in the Bering Sea. The high-stakes world of deep sea crabbing takes center stage on Deadliest Catch, but is this ...

Law enforcement officers examine a load of Alaska crab, much of it infested with Bitter Crab Syndrome, after it arrived in Washington state in 2024. (Photo provided by the Washington Department of ...

A Kodiak fisherman has been sentenced to one year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab infected with parasites from Alaska to Washington. Corey Potter, 64, owned and ...