Dan Veerhusen in Sand Point last summer, preparing the Taurus for the herring season. Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Bering Sea had calmed slightly Monday as the Coast Guard resumed its search for three people missing from a crab boat that sank in stormy weather. A man lost overboard from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 9—Stormy weather in the Bering Sea on Friday was keeping response crews from getting to a 134-foot crab boat that ran aground ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A survivor of a Alaska crab boat sinking that left five fellow fishermen missing said the crew went from “sleeping to swimming" in minutes as rough seas and ice threatened to ...

A deckhand on the reality television show “Deadliest Catch,” which documents the lives of crab fishermen working in one of the world’s harshest environments, died after he was reported to have fallen ...

A U.S. Coast Guard report blames a crab boat's owner and captain for a fatal 2017 voyage in the Bering Sea. The Seattle-based fishing vessel Destination went missing Feb. 11, 2017, off a remote Alaska ...

Todd Meadows, a deckhand on a boat featured in the long-running reality TV series "Deadliest Catch," has died while fishing off the coast of Alaska. Captain Rick Shelford, one of the stars of the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine crew members were hoisted to a helicopter off a commercial crab boat amid near gale force winds, strong downward drafts from a nearby cliff and rough seas after the ...