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 ...

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

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It's embedded in the culture of Alaska's working waterfronts and king crabs have been the centerpiece of holiday feasts around the world. However, the red king crab fishery collapsed in the 1980s.

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.

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery is open for the first time in two years, but the Trident Seafoods processing facility in St.

These crustaceans are markedly more expensive than other popular crabs. A pound of claws can cost two times the price of Alaskan snow crab legs. Part of what makes these crabs so costly is the ...

Bering Sea king and snow crab fisheries, for example, were closed for consecutive years because stocks were wiped out after a sustained and severe marine heatwave. In all, the Alaska seafood ...