Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year, we have a couple of Atlantic deep-sea red crabs (Chaceon quinquedens) in our tank at the Oceanarium at Hampton Beach.

Clusters of snow crab legs are displayed on Jan. 13, 2023, at the seafood counter at a midtown Anchorage grocery store. The product was identified as previously frozen. The 2022-23 Bering Sea snow ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 triggered the first ever closure of the fishery in ...

KODIAK, Alaska — A quiet early October day on the bay in Kodiak, Alaska looks idyllic, but it's a problem for local fishermen. Early fall is usually when crabbers are frantically preparing for a long ...

When scientists realized that nearly 10 billion snow crabs had gone missing from Bering Sea between 2018 to 2021, they weren’t sure where they could have gone. After searching for a potentially ...

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 ...

KODIAK, Alaska — Snow crabs are creatures that historically have filled Alaska's Bering Sea. That's why when they vanished, everyone was caught off guard. State of Alaska Researcher Ben Daly said in ...

In the short term, Alaska crab fishermen and the communities that depend on them will get a slight reprieve from the disastrous conditions they have endured for the past two years, with harvests for ...

This story was originally published by Grist and was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. My small turboprop plane whirred low ...

In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was ...