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 disappeared — ...

After a two-year hiatus forced by low stocks, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is back on. The decision to reopen the harvest, announced on Oct. 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is based ...

ALASKA, USA — Crabbers are back in the Bering Sea Tuesday for the first day of the crabbing season, many of whom are from Washington. This is the first time in three years they are allowed to catch ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and the snow crab harvesters and processors in the Canadian province of Newfoundland are at odds with each other... Spring is officially here! The world's ...

The bairdi crab and king crab are two distinct crab varieties. Bairdi is a snow crab variety known as a queen crab. Opilio and bairdi crabs reign supreme as the most widely distributed commercial ...

Catch the Current hosts Amanda Buckle and Lorin Castiglione phone a Canadian friend this week -- Undercurrent's very own Barb Dean-Simmons -- to get the scoop on the latest science assessment out of ...

With Puget Sound now closed to recreational crab fishing, sport crabbers issued winter catch record cards have until Saturday to submit their catch reports. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

While we love crabmeat formed into crisp crab cakes or swirled into a spicy cheese dip, there's an undeniable pleasure derived from cracking into steaming snow or king crab legs. Two of the most ...