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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 ...
Unalaska could process St. Paul’s snow crab again next year, but officials won’t know for sure until October.Some fisheries ...
For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea.
The snow crab crisis in Alaska first began in early 2022, after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs disappeared — a 90% plunge in the population.
Alaska fishermen are feeling the pinch after Bering Sea snow crab season was canceled for the second year in a row.
The crab and seafood distributer operates multiple seafood and crab processing facilities in Alaska. Born and raised in the 49th state, Pedersen and his brother, Kurt, are part of a fifth ...
Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the second year in a row — and the second time ever — due to dwindling crab population levels. When researchers with the ...
In the eastern Bering Sea, the snow crab population plummeted after a marine heat wave in 2018. The crabs may have starved, a new study finds.
The government brought in fishermen to teach locals how to fish commercially for halibut and funded the construction of a harbor for crab processing.