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Alaska fishermen are feeling the pinch after Bering Sea snow crab season was canceled for the second year in a row.
In Alaska, last fall's shocking collapse of the snow crab fishery shows that conditions for sea life can and are rapidly changing.
While many Bering Sea crab populations find themselves in freefall, Dungeness crab is breaking records in regions that used to hardly see them.
For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering Sea after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs had mysteriously ...
The state decision to reopen harvests for prized Bristol Bay red king crab provides only a temporary reprieve from long-term environmental and economic difficulties.
But as crab fisheries have collapsed — king crab shut down in 2021, followed by snow crab in 2022 — so has the herring market. “Crab fishing was our main customer,” Veerhusen said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 ...
After a two-year pause, fishermen are once again allowed to catch snow crab off the waters of Alaska. The problem that led to the pause wasn't limited to snow crabs, and the solution hopes to help ...
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.
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