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 ...

What happened to the Time Bandit? Explore the vessel’s retirements, comebacks, and ongoing crab-fishing adventures under the ...

Nine people were rescued from the F/V Arctic Sea, which had 50,000 gallons of diesel onboard when it went aground Monday at St. George Island.

In the last decade, there was just one commercial red king crab fishery in Southeast Alaska. But a proposal going before the Alaska Board of Fisheries could potentially change the tide for future ...

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 ...

Nine crew members were hoisted to a helicopter off a commercial crab boat amid near gale force winds, strong downward drafts from a nearby cliff and rough seas after the fishing vessel grounded on an ...

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 ...