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 ...

Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again for the first time in nearly three years. The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of ...

Could Deadliest Catch be sailing into its last season? The 21st season of the Discovery Channel reality series premieres Friday, August 1. Once again, it follows determined fishermen as they hunt for ...

Alaska's snow crab fishing industry came to a standstill in 2022 after an alarming disappearance of the animals, and now scientists are increasingly confident that man-made climate change is to blame ...

Ever since Deadliest Catch debuted on the Discovery Channel in April 2005, the series has seen some of the wildest, most treacherous real-life moments in television history, part and parcel of the ...

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) – Few professions are as deadly as commercial fishing on the Bering Sea. Crews face rogue waves and frigid gales that toss around heavy machines and cause vessels to pitch, yaw ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...