KODIAK, Alaska — The Bering Sea snow crab fishery will be closed again this year due to population concerns. Crabbers from the Pacific Northwest who fish in Alaska had been watching and waiting for ...

Bering Sea crabbers will see a boost in catch limits this season, after years of cancellations and small harvests due to low ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population triggered two consecuctive years of closure, starting in 2022.

Catch limits are up for snow crab and Bristol Bay king crab, which crashed in recent years, but an abundance of snow-tanner ...

For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season earlier this week ...

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the first time ever after scientists discovered an unprecedented decline in crab numbers. Climate change is the No. 1 suspect in ...

Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

Crab pots sit on a dock June 25 in Kodiak, Alaska. 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 ...

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 ...