A NOAA study found snow-Tanner hybrid crabs surged after a marine heat wave wiped out billions of snow crabs.

The Alaska Bering Sea snow crab fishery is open for the first time in 2 years after a sharp decline in the crab population caused fishery closures. Participants have banded together with NOAA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering Sea after biologists ...

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 ...

Crab eaters and fishermen just took a major hit this week. "I am struggling for words. This is so unbelievable that this is happening," Jamie Goen, the executive director of the Alaska Bering Sea ...

Despite continual fluctuations in Alaskan crab harvests over the last few years, seafood boil restaurant chain Angry Crab ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snow crab, at top, is displayed with a bairdi tanner crab, at bottom, in this undated photo. The crab species are related, but ...

Behind the Alaska Snow Crab Die-Off: What Really Caused 10 Billion Deaths (2018–2021) ...

We would like to address questions about the data NOAA Fisheries collects and analyzes to inform managers about the recent Alaska snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab stock declines. Understandably ...

Alaska’s snow crabs are vanishing fast — their population has plummeted by 90%, forcing officials to cancel the snow crab season for the second year in a row. These cold-water creatures are vital to ...

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 nearly 3 ...