Southeast Alaska’s first competitive commercial red king crab fishery in eight years opens on Saturday. Ten different areas will be open for the fishery. They’ll be managed individually based on how ...

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 ...

Commercial Tanner crab fisheries around Kodiak will be closed going into next year. That's after the Alaska Department of ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the commercial red and blue king crab fishery for the 2023-2024 season, the sixth year in a row, citing stock survey numbers that remain well below ...

KODIAK, Alaska — The Bering Sea snow crab fishery will be closed again this year due to population concerns. Crabbers from the Pacific Northwest who fish in Alaska had been watching and waiting for ...

Commercial Tanner crab fisheries in the Kodiak, Chignik, and South Peninsula districts will remain closed after survey results failed to meet harvest thresholds, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game ...

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 ...

As food prices rise and federal leaders revisit trade and nutrition policies, one solution has quietly been working for ...

KODIAK, Alaska — A quiet early October day on the bay in Kodiak, Alaska looks idyllic, but it's a problem for local fishermen. Early fall is usually when crabbers are frantically preparing for a long ...

Law enforcement officers examine a load of Alaska crab, much of it infested with Bitter Crab Syndrome, after it arrived in Washington state in 2024. (Photo provided by the Washington Department of ...