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 ...
Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population triggered two consecuctive years of closure, starting in 2022.
Also well-read last week was the news that biologists in the US state of Alaska said commercial crab species are stable enough to support modest harvests, though they cautioned that most stocks ...
In a dwindling fishery that could set a record for speed, Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula fishermen will drop pots for a combined total of 770,000 pounds of Tanner crab when the fishery opens on January ...
There are three vessels registered so far for Eastern Bering Sea Tanner crab, another one of Alaska’s big crab stocks. That fishery also opened Oct. 15. Many boats that finished up kings will ...
Imitation crab is made from a fish paste called surimi. It is most commonly made from Alaska pollock. But other types of marine fish, like arrowtooth flounder, Pacific whiting, and blue whiting, are ...