KETCHIKAN, Alaska (KTUU) - A small but potentially environmentally threatening crab is expanding its area of influence in Alaska. The European Green Crab was first discovered near Alaska’s coast in ...

Director Charton Bonham has assessed whale entanglement risk under the Risk Assessment Mitigation Program and announced the ...

In an effort to create a pipeline of commercial fishermen to replace those aging out, Carteret Community College has created ...

The closure of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery in 2022 crippled one of the US state’s busiest commercial fishing hubs ...

Thousands of the crabs have already been trapped in southern Southeast Alaska, and experts advise the public to be on the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Kodiak, Alaska, fisher has been sentenced to a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of Tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of ...

A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington ...

Fish and Game’s proposal to the Board of Fish explains that there will not be a commercial red king crab opening in Southeast Alaska while crab stocks are below that minimum threshold.

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.

Snow crab fishing in Alaska returns, but fishermen face uncertainty amid reduced quotas For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering ...

Between 2022 and 2023, Alaska's seafood industry suffered a nearly $2 billion loss, according to NOAA. That industry extends to fish markets and dinner tables thousands of miles from Alaska.