NOAA cuts, economic headwinds and invasive species pose problems, but there was some recovery in crab stocks and salmon ...

After a two-year hiatus forced by low stocks, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is back on. The decision to reopen the harvest, announced on Oct. 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is based ...

Southeast Alaska’s next commercial golden king crab and Tanner crab fisheries will open on Feb. 17. The Tanner crab population is on a slight decline, whereas golden king crab is on track for an ...

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 ...

The pandemic left no corner of the world untouched — and that includes the top of the globe. On the 17th season of Deadliest Catch, the hard-living captains and crew members of the Alaskan crab ...

KODIAK, Alaska — Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father's crab boat, the Silver Spray, before joining his two brothers in 2020 to buy a half-interest plus access rights for a snow crab ...

It’s hard to put a finger on what drives the wild popularity of Deadliest Catch, the Discovery Channel’s series about crab fishing in the Bering Sea. Pulling load after load of crustaceans off the ...

Prior to about a week ago, you would've never caught me dead climbing aboard an offshore fishing boat headed out to the middle of the ocean to rock back and forth for hours in hopes of catching a fish ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 triggered the first ever closure of the fishery in ...