Bering Sea crabbers will see a boost in catch limits this season, after years of cancellations and small harvests due to low ...

KODIAK, Alaska — The Bering Sea snow crab fishery will be closed again this year due to population concerns. Crabbers from the Pacific Northwest who fish in Alaska had been watching and waiting for ...

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 ...

The council, which manages fisheries in federal waters off Alaska, shifted to an online-only October meeting and now may ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab, the largest and most lucrative of all the Bering Sea crab species, for the first time in two years, offering a slight ...

In the short term, Alaska crab fishermen and the communities that depend on them will get a slight reprieve from the disastrous conditions they have endured for the past two years, with harvests for ...

Unalaska is finally seeing some financial relief nearly three years after the collapse of Alaska's snow crab and red king crab fisheries. The city has now officially secured more than $3 million in ...

A commercial Dungeness crab harvester from Alaska has pled guilty to stealing a rival fishers’ gear in a deal that will see him serve jail time, forfeit his fishing vessel, and pay restitution to the ...

Law enforcement officers examine a load of Alaska crab, much of it infested with Bitter Crab Syndrome, after it arrived in Washington state in 2024. (Photo provided by the Washington Department of ...

ANCHORAGE -- Lindsey Bloom is so enthusiastic about her budding career as a commercial fisherman that she had the state's "Made in Alaska" emblem and two leaping sockeye salmon tattooed on the small ...

A Ketchikan man pleaded guilty in August to two charges related to illegal fishing and theft of Dungeness crab pots, ...