Every decision counts, no matter how big or small they are ... King and Tanner crab fisheries of Alaska’s Bering Sea in mind, it later became one of the pioneering boats to harvest Opilio ...

My small turboprop plane whirred low ... [Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change] Through the windshield of the truck I was riding in, I ...

This winter will mark the first time in the history of U.S. management that the Bering ... for the small Tanner crab quota not expecting to make much money, but just to keep the boats operating ...

more and more boats are relying on other work like fishing for cod and small amounts of bairdi crab or summer tendering gigs just to make ends meet. So when a group of Bering Sea fishermen ...

Data from an NOAA eastern Bering Sea ... crab abundance from 2018 to 2021, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game confirmed to USA TODAY. The population declined 83% from 2018 to 2022 as some ...

The king and snow crab are traditionally the largest Bering Sea crab harvests ... cod or serve as tender boats to ferry fish back to port. Some will participate in a small harvest of some 2 ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens ... As Stichert describes it, the department’s decision to allow a “small, conservative fishery” for snow crab was the product of a careful balancing ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to crab fisherman Gabriel Prout about the crash of the Bering Sea snow crab population ... Gabriel Prout and his family own a crabbing boat in Kodiak, Alaska.

so it was something I have never seen in my 30 years of fishing on the Bering Sea," said Mark Kasto, a former crab boat captain. Scientists at NOAA have since identified the main reason for the ...

Building crab boats fit for the Bering Sea is no easy task, as they have to withstand the harsh weather conditions of Alaska. “We have stability reports onboard and we try to follow them to the ...