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 U.S. state of Alaska has canceled the forthcoming 2026 Kodiak commercial tanner crab season to let the population recover ...

Alaska’s commercial Bering Sea snow crab fishery kicked off its second season of the year with doubled catch limits – a ...

SEATTLE — Crab fishermen are at a loss after Alaska canceled harvest season for two types of crabs over population concerns. For the first time ever, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is closed, and ...

WASHINGTON, USA — Senators from Washington and Alaska wrote a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Thursday requesting a federal fishery disaster declaration. This comes after Alaska ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1940, the Alaskan King Crab Expedition was commissioned by the Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of Interior) in order to study crab and the fishing industry in the vicinity of Aleutian Islands ...

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, ...