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

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

Snow crab fishing in Alaska returns, but fishermen face uncertainty amid reduced quotas Posted: January 7, 2025 | Last updated: January 7, 2025 After a two-year pause, fishermen are once again ...

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

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) closed the commercial Tanner crab fishery in the Eastern Section of the South ...

Negotiations over state-managed groundfish harvest, including proposals to open up demersal shelf rockfish fishing, sped by on the third day of the Alaska Board of Fisheries’ Southeast Alaska/Yakutat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.