Alaska canceled the Bering Sea snow crab fishing season for the first time ever on Monday. Snow crab populations mysteriously crashed after a baby boom, and scientists suspect warming waters. The king ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday that it's nearly doubling the harvest for the upcoming Bering Sea snow crab commercial fishing season from last year's totals. Fish and Game set ...

The bairdi crab and king crab are two distinct crab varieties. Bairdi is a snow crab variety known as a queen crab. Opilio ...

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 ...

Fishing in designated areas off the Alaskan coast will continue despite pleas from harvesters and conservation groups to close the crucial habitat known for its red king crabs and allow for minimal ...

Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

Bering Sea snow crab support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 has triggered the first-ever closure of the fishery. (Photo provided by National Oceanic and ...

Deep sea fishing meets coastal foraging in this epic Alaskan trip—halibut, crab, and clams cooked fresh in the wild.

A commercial Dungeness crab harvester from Alaska has pled guilty to stealing a rival fishers’ gear in a deal that will see ...

In mid-October, the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that it would be canceling the winter snow crab season. This is the first time the snow crab season has been canceled in the Bering ...

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, ...