Lighter nets, streamlined trawl doors, and smarter rigging choices are helping trawl captains burn less fuel, spend less time ...

Billions of snow crab disappeared from the Bering Sea in the past few years — a crash that’s devastated Alaska’s crab fishing fleet and a harvest that just two years ago was worth $130 million.

The Bering Sea fishing grounds are usually covered in sea ice in the winter. But there wasn’t much ice, and they fished further north than usual. Finding snow crabs was still difficult.

The city received federal relief last week after the 2021-22 king and snow crab collapses — funding that’s only now reaching ...

The Bering Sea snow crab season was canceled after billions of crabs disappeared, devastating Alaska’s fishing industry and the livelihoods of those who depend on it. From Alaska Public Media ...

In 2018, about 3 billion mature snow crabs (Chionoecetes opilio) inhabited the Bering Sea along with roughly five billion immature crabs, the Seattle Times reported.But by late 2021, those numbers ...

At least 1,000 fish-eating orcas are known to swim in the Bering Sea, according to a NOAA population estimate published in July. Their population is more than 13 times larger than the endangered ...

I've grown up watching my dad fish out on the Bering Sea. He's been fishing out there for over 45 years. I went off to university, got a degree, but found myself called back to the sea.

There are 100,000 fishing-related deaths worldwide every year, and 300 fishermen take up residence in Davy Jones’s locker -every day. ... The Bering Sea, and its northernmost extension, ...

The long wait for Deadliest Catch fans is now over. The show depicting the highs and lows of crab fishing in the dangerous ...

As the once-lucrative Bering Sea crab harvest resumes, Alaska’s fishers face challenges. By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon Wednesday, October 18, 2023 9:16am; News Fishing ...