the Western Bering Sea Tanner crab season is also underway, with eight vessels registered and less than 10 percent of the total harvest caught so far. Many snow crab harvesters are expected to ...

Amid unprecedented low abundance levels for Tanner crab and snow crab in the Bering Sea, scientists from the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS, or NOAA Fisheries) have been utilizing sensitive ...

Last week’s Crab Plan Team, an advisory group to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, heard some good news about increased biomass of mature male snow crab in the Bering Sea, but the survey ...

recently after completing a 130-day deployment patrolling the Bering Sea. Homeported in Alameda, Bertholf was commissioned on Aug ... The NOMARS program’s prototype vessel, USX-1 Defiant, completed ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Bering Sea snow crab season opened in October after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled back-to-back seasons in 2022-23 and 2023-24 due to low population ...

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In 2021, Bering Sea pollock trawlers caught 546,043 chum salmon as bycatch, about 10% of which was headed to western Alaska, where subsistence communities depend on them for survival. It was the ...

You want this money, you gonna earn it. They travel through the waters surrounding Nome, Alaska, using tools like dredgers to navigate the sea bed in search of gold. The Bering Sea Gold season 18 cast ...

I was a 17-year-old green deckhand fishing opilio crab on the Westward Wind, a 170-foot catcher-processor. After crab season, ...

Bering Sea fishermen have harvested roughly 60 percent of this year’s total allowable harvest of snow crabs. But there’s limited processing capacity for the catch. Fishermen have unloaded ...

The wreckage of the Bering Air single-engine turboprop was found on sea ice on Friday, a day after it went missing. The US Coast Guard located the aircraft while searching the area by helicopter ...