the Bering Sea snow crab fishery will not open for the upcoming season. Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game announced the closure Monday afternoon. The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery will ...

“Management of Bering Sea snow crab must now focus on conservation ... We have serious doubts about the model,” Daly said. The fall red king crab harvest was canceled for the second year ...

“On the heels of that decision came to an announcement that Bristol Bay red king crab will be closed for the second year in a row, and Bering Sea snow crab will close for the first time in the ...

Daly's message was echoed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Biologist Erin Fedeway after a 2021 study showed approximately 10 billion Bering Sea snow crab vanished from Alaska's ...

As the news spread, officials in Alaska canceled the official fishing seasons for both king crab and snow ... say what’s happening to crab numbers in the Bering Sea may be a combination of ...

Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab, the largest and most lucrative of all the Bering Sea crab species, for the first time in two years, offering a slight reprieve to the ...

This year, Bristol Bay red king crab and Bering Sea Tanner crab will be available to fish. The red king crab harvest has been closed for the last two years. The red king crab stock is back to ...

The positive signs for high-value red king crab, as tenuous as they may be, are not yet emerging for Bering Sea snow crab. That marquee Alaska fishery, which in the 1990s supported harvests in the ...

Built with the rugged King and Tanner crab fisheries of Alaska’s Bering Sea in mind, it later became one of the pioneering boats to harvest Opilio, or Snow Crab, in the early 1980s. This vessel ...

“We’re really happy they’re opening up the king crab season, it’ll bring some much needed relief,” said Gabriel Prout, a third-generation fisher and president of the Alaska Bering Sea ...