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 ...

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying of the community.

The government brought in fishermen to teach locals how to fish commercially for halibut and funded the construction of a harbor for crab processing.

For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea.

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 Alaska, last fall's shocking collapse of the snow crab fishery shows that conditions for sea life can and are rapidly changing.