Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again, for the first time in nearly three years.

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 ...

Alaska's largest groundfish and crab fisheries begin each year's fishing cycle. Summer salmon seasons will always be at the ...

Trident Seafoods’ St. Paul processing plant won’t open to take snow crab deliveries this season. But the Pribilof Island ...

Billions of crabs ultimately starved to death, devastating Alaska’s fishing industry in the years that followed. Snow crabs are a ... device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based ...

crystal crabs are often called snow crabs, due to their white carapace. This may lead some people to confuse them with another variety, the Alaska snow crab. As the name suggests, the Alaska snow ...

Red king crab harvested in Alaska is seen in this undated photo. Red king crab are the largest of Alaska’s commercially harvested crab species, and their meat is prized as a delicacy.

St. Paul hasn’t processed any snow crab at its Trident plant since 2022, when the fishery closed for two years due to massive population declines among crab stocks. But the Alaska Department of ...