For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Alaska's famous fleets have been dealt a devastating blow by climate change, leaving coastal communities fighting for ...

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, ...

Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and for the first time, have also scrapped the winter harvest of smaller snow crab. The move is a double whammy to a fleet ...

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 ...