EDMONDS — When a seafood processing plant in Alaska shut down in the middle of crabbing season, fishermen found themselves in a pinch. Under the state’s quota system, harvesters can only catch a set ...

A Kodiak commercial fisherman was sentenced to one year in federal prison last week for orchestrating an illegal scheme to transport and sell thousands of pounds of live crab from Alaska to Washington ...

Bering Sea crabbers will see a boost in catch limits this season, after years of cancellations and small harvests due to low snow and king crab stocks. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Law enforcement officers examine a load of Alaska crab, much of it infested with Bitter Crab Syndrome, after it arrived in ...

Trident Seafoods’ St. Paul processing plant won’t open to take snow crab deliveries this season. But the Pribilof Island community will still see some economic benefits from the harvest, thanks to a ...

Photographs document work completed by members of the Alaska King Crab Investigation, in which Waldo Schmitt took part. There are no descriptions on the reverse; there are numbers recorded on the ...

NOME, Alaska (AP) -- A rare blue-colored red king crab was part of a fisherman's catch earlier this month in Nome, Alaska. KNOM reports Frank McFarland found the blue crab in his pot when fishing on ...

Trident Seafoods’ plant in Kodiak features a retired boat as a major part of its facility, right next to the ferry dock. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Trident Seafoods, one of the biggest seafood processors in ...

Last week, Undercurrent News reported live from the 2024 Groundfish Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Although members of the media are not permitted to attend the event, Undercurrent's team brought ...

Photographs document work completed by members of the Alaska King Crab Investigation, in which Waldo Schmitt took part. There are no descriptions on the reverse. Images show employees at canneries and ...