In Alaska, last fall's shocking ... Unlike those for cod or snow crabs, Dungeness crab fishing permits are cheaper and easier to come by right now, based on surveys that show there's still plenty ...

Alaska canceled the snow crab fishing season for the first time on Monday, as crab populations mysteriously plummet. An estimated 1 billion snow crabs suddenly disappeared from the Bering Sea ...

A remote Alaska village depends on the harvest to survive. ... In a normal year, taxes on crab and local investments in crab fishing could bring St. Paul more than $2 million.

Alaska snow crab harvest canceled for first time ever 02:34. Climate change is a prime suspect in a mass die-off of Alaska's snow crabs, experts say, after the state took the unprecedented step of ...

Snow crab fishing in Alaska returns, but fishermen face uncertainty amid reduced quotas. Posted: January 7, ... fishermen are once again allowed to catch snow crab off the waters of Alaska.

In the 2021 survey, snow crab numbers had fallen dramatically — there were just enough snow crabs to open the crabbing season that year. This year, numbers fell short of the set threshold.

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.

Snow crab fishing season in Alaska’s Bering Sea has been canceled for the first time in history. Bristol Bay’s red king crab fishery will also be closed, for the second year in a row.

Alaska’s crab fishing industry is worth more than $200 million, according to a report by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, which promotes seafood.

The Alaska commercial crabbing fleet “is bracing for half a billion dollars in losses going into the second year of stock collapse,” the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers trade association said in ...