In the last decade, there was just one commercial red king crab fishery in Southeast Alaska. But a proposal ... Juneau area and allocate the commercial harvest solely to personal use.

Paul in the U.S. state of Alaska have reached an agreement to share revenue collected from the processing of 1.6 million pounds of Bering Sea snow crab. After two years of closures, NOAA Fisheries ...

Scientists have long thought that the genetic diversity of the Alaska red king crab fell into three main groups: the Southeast region, the Gulf of Alaska and East Bering Sea regions, and the Aleutian ...

So, why are there so many different Alaska red king crab genetic groups throughout the state? Research shows it’s for several reasons like natural selection and random genetic changes.

Opilio, or snow crab, is generally fished in the new year and into the early spring. The season runs through May. Alaska Department ... Normally, some of that harvest would be processed in St.

Alaska’s fishing industry, a billion-dollar powerhouse that produced approximately 5.27 billion tons of seafood in 2021, is now grappling with the fallout. In addition to the snow crab, the Bristol ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut down in October 2022. This season’s first catch was delivered on Jan. 15.

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 ...

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