The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will not move forward with a request to close the Bristol Bay red king crab savings area to all commercial fishing. At its February meeting, the regulatory ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

Fourteen vessels had landed about 680,000 pounds of Bristol Bay king crab as of Wednesday, Oct. 23. 2024. The average weight is 6.84 pounds, and the catch rate is 35 legal males per pot. Both of those ...

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 ...

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 ...

The red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) was intentionally introduced into the Barents Sea several decades ago and has since established a significant population that is both ecologically ...

Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab for the first time in two years, offering a slight reprieve to the beleaguered fishery beset by low numbers likely exacerbated by climate change.

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.