The crab fishing boat Pinnacle eases through an icy patch of water north of St. Paul on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Most fishing boats that operate in the Bering Sea can travel through some amount of ...

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For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season earlier this week ...

On a normal winter day on St. Paul, an island in the Bering Sea some 300 miles off the Alaskan coast, the community would be humming with activity. At the Trident Seafood crab processing plant, the ...

EDMONDS — When a seafood processing plant in Alaska shut down in the middle of crabbing season, fishermen found themselves in a pinch. Under the state’s quota system, harvesters can only catch a set ...

A year after state officials imposed unprecedented harvest shutdowns on crab fishing in the Bering Sea, stocks continue to be in dismal shape, suggesting that continued closures may be on the way. The ...

The theories are many. The crabs moved into Russian waters. They are dead because predators got them. They are dead because they ate each other. The crabs scuttled off the continental shelf and ...

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 ...

The Alaska fishermen made famous by the TV reality show "The Deadliest Catch'' were Monday caught in a deadly tangle of American politics, their fishing boats idle at the docks in Dutch Harbor as ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. My small turboprop plane whirred low through thick clouds. Below me, St. Paul Island cut a golden, angular shape ...