Kodiak’s commercial fishing fleet has been preparing for the area’s biggest tanner crab season since 1986. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Kodiak’s biggest tanner crab fishery in nearly 40 years is set ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the commercial red and blue king crab fishery for the 2023-2024 season ... lead king/tanner crab biologist for ADFG. While that’s an improvement ...

Some theories suggest climate change is to blame. There will be a western and eastern Bering Sea tanner crab season this year. That will also open on Oct. 15. ADF&G has allotted a total of more ...

A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of ...

A Kodiak fisherman has been sentenced to one year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab infected ...

He noticed more boats going after tanner crab last season — a much smaller fishery, but one that was open. When fisheries get closed “you displace a lot of boats and a lot of crew,” he said.

This season’s first catch was delivered on Jan ... Meanwhile, eight vessels are registered for the Western Bering Sea Tanner crab fishery. Less than 10% of that total harvest has been caught ...

KODIAK, Alaska — The Bering Sea snow crab fishery will be closed again this year due to population concerns. Crabbers from the Pacific Northwest who fish in Alaska had been watching and waiting ...

The crabbing industry in western Washington and around the globe is in crisis. This is due to environmental impacts, like warming oceans, and economic factors, like inflation, that are putting a ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game also announced on Monday that a small Bering Sea crab harvest of more than 2 million pounds of tanner crab will open Oct. 16.

He noticed more boats going after tanner crab last season — a much smaller fishery, but one that was open. When fisheries get closed “you displace a lot of boats and a lot of crew,” he said.

He noticed more boats going after tanner crab last season — a much smaller fishery, but one that was open. When fisheries get closed “you displace a lot of boats and a lot of crew,” he said.