Deadliest Catch returns for its 21st season on Friday, August 1, which will see the fishing crews on the hunt for red king ...

Without Bering Sea snow crab or Bristol Bay red king crab — which has been closed since 2021 — the City of St. Paul is estimating a roughly $2.7 million hit.

And the correlations are that when we’ve had really warm — to hot, even — eastern Bering Sea sea surface temperatures, Bristol Bay sockeye have done really well.

The last reports prior to this from the Bristol Bay region came by the revenue cutter Manning, which returned here early in November.

The Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries are the first rationalized harvests in the nation to suffer such massive collapses, industry representatives said repeatedly.

Following the Exxon Valdez spill, Congress withdrew an area in Bristol Bay and the southeast Bering Sea from consideration for oil and gas leasing. In 1998 President Clinton used executive powers ...

Bristol Bay’s sockeye weren’t affected by those factors because salmon born in Bristol Bay’s rivers and streams spend most of their ocean lives in the southeast Bering Sea, not the Gulf of ...

: Bethel just recorded its coldest November in 80 years Thoman said that weather patterns in the Bering Sea have directed storms south of the Aleutian Islands and the eastern Gulf of Alaska.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday it will again cancel this year's Bering Sea snow crab harvest. Bristol Bay red king crab will re-open.

Register here. As the world warms, the Bering Sea tells a story of boom and bust. The sockeye salmon runs of Bristol Bay are to be marveled at.

If you look at a map of Alaska, near the peninsula that juts out like a tusk into the Bering sea, is a place called Bristol Bay. The Bristol Bay watershed produces around 46 percent of the world's ...

The Bering Sea's snow crab population has been in decline over the last five years, but this season the population has collapsed.