The closure of the snow crab fishery in recent years has been a huge blow to St. Paul, a Pribilof Islands community of about 300 people. (Courtesy Ethan Candyfire) Alaska processor Trident Seafoods ...

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 ...

A close up picture of a snow crab in a transparent tank. More than 10 billion snow crabs recently vanished from the Bering Sea, and now we know why: They fell victim to one of the biggest marine heat ...

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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 ...

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A large population of snow crabs in the eastern Bering Sea collapsed after a marine heat wave in 2018 and 2019 that multiplied the crabs' caloric needs and drove them to starvation. When you purchase ...